Career Services

Our career services are an emerging support service that integrates advising, work-based experiences, and career driven curriculum. We are currently piloting a career readiness model that is place-based and responsive to the unique needs, circumstances, and journey of individual students. Our pilot career readiness model was created by the American Indian College Fund and readapted to fit NWIC’s unique needs and context. This pilot project engages career preparation through career driven personal reflective practice to identify, develop, and foster personal and professional skills, knowledge, and abilities.

Students engage in developing professional portfolios to market the career experiences and skills they have gained through their educational journey. Our career readiness model also fosters opportunities to engage work- based experiential activities through research, internships, and course curriculum. Our unique career readiness model holistically emerges from four cyclical elements:

Ways of Being – Career exploration through strengths and centering self in place.
Ways of Knowing - Curriculum and coursework shaped by career and employer needs.
Relationality – Engaging employers and community through work-based experiences inside and outside the classroom.
Storytelling – Learning to be a self-advocate and empowering students to share their educational stories.