FOR COLLEGES · CAREER SERVICES · ATHLETICS
Bring Dr. Edward Raimundi III into a conversation about translating experience into a resume, an interview, or a realistic next career step. Sessions connect reflection with work participants can keep.
A student can describe a demanding season, a paid shift, a research assignment, or a community commitment and still struggle to explain its relevance to an opportunity. A career-readiness workshop gives the group a shared method for identifying a contribution, supporting it with evidence, and communicating it clearly.
I bring experience in higher education student services and career development, including career-readiness engagement with Virginia Tech student-athletes. We start with the audience’s actual experience and the next conversation they need to prepare for.
These sessions can support career programming, student-athlete development, student organizations, and college transition or professional-development initiatives. For an alumni or working-adult audience, we can shape the examples around paid work, career changes, a return to work, and existing responsibilities.
CHOOSE A FOCUS
Choose one central purpose. The scope and participant materials are agreed with the organizer.
Identify an individual contribution from work, study, sport, or community life. Draft a resume statement and a professional introduction that keep the actual scope visible.
Work to keep: an edited statement, the evidence behind it, and a note about the opportunity it addresses.
Use a real example to outline the situation, responsibility, action, and result. Practice follow-up questions that help participants explain how they know what changed.
Work to keep: a STAR outline, practice feedback, and one revision to make before the next interview.
Compare an occupation with actual preparation requirements and the participant’s constraints. Identify a question to research before committing to training or a new direction.
Work to keep: a short research plan, a requirement to verify, and an accessible next step.
Participation in sport is a setting for a story, not automatic proof of every leadership or workplace skill. A participant might examine how they coordinated a responsibility, responded to feedback, supported a teammate, or adapted a process. We distinguish their individual actions from a team result and connect the example to the work an employer actually needs.
See the context of my VT football career-readiness engagement and LinkedIn and networking session. We can discuss how those experiences connect to your group’s needs.
Before the event, we identify the audience, access needs, current preparation, and one piece of work participants should be able to attempt. During the workshop, participants work from their own examples or a clearly labeled practice scenario. Afterward, a useful review asks what they revised, tried, or learned—not only whether they enjoyed the event.
Career readiness develops through continued learning and practice. Participants check qualifications directly, keep evidence of their contribution, and identify a concrete action to continue with your institution’s career services.
For background, NACE’s career-readiness framework provides a shared vocabulary for college career development.
Yes. Bring the resources, terminology, and referral paths your team already uses. We can define where the session fits and direct participants back to the people who will support their next steps.
Career Story Studio, Next Move, and the online guides are available without an account. A session can use them where appropriate or use a written worksheet. Browser-based tools are optional; individual writing is not submitted to Edward by those tools.
Share the audience, purpose, preferred format, access needs, and the situation participants are preparing for. Fees, availability, materials, and deliverables are agreed before the engagement is confirmed.
SHAPE THE EXPERIENCE
Tell me who is attending, what they are preparing for, and what you want them to be able to try afterward. We will discuss fit, format, access, fees, and the work to carry forward.