From aspiration to testable career hypotheses.
Programs for professors, program directors, and international, career, and innovation offices. We design programs that turn students' vague interest into concrete career hypotheses — tested through projects and next actions.
Situations we are often consulted on
- The overseas program exists, but centers on visits and tours with shallow learning
- Satisfaction scores are fine, but learning outcomes are hard to explain
- Career education needs touchpoints with real roles and ways of working
- Post-program feedback doesn't feed next year's design
What the program aims for
- Exposure to roles, industries, and ways of working students didn't know
- Understanding practitioners' career paths, actual work, and hiring realities
- A grasp of personal fit and skill gaps
- Projects and work samples — and next actions: internships, portfolios, further study, job hunting
Example structure we can propose
- Situation
- A university that wants to redesign its annual overseas program as career education.
- Approach
- Organize the university's purpose and students' starting points → practitioner dialogue (roles, career paths, hiring realities) → organize each student's fit and skill gaps → project, presentation, feedback → convert into next actions (internship applications, portfolios, course choices) → post-program evaluation and a next-year proposal.
- What remains
- Career hypotheses and next actions per student, project deliverables, and an evaluation report with improvement material for the university.
What students keep
- Wider career options and concrete hypotheses
- An understanding of their skill gaps
- Projects and work samples
- Their next choice and action
What the university keeps
- Material to explain learning outcomes
- Contribution to career support and internationalization
- Records of project quality and student engagement
- Connection to curriculum and credits, and next-year improvement material
How success is seen (examples)
Defining the measures is part of the design. Longer-term tracking can be proposed depending on scope.
An initial program concept, from your educational purpose and expected student change.
Share the target students, your educational purpose, current programs, and the change you expect in students.
Based on what you share, we will outline an initial concept — learning outcomes, career hypotheses, practitioner dialogue, projects, reflection, and next actions — and send it by email within three business days.
If it fits your university’s direction, we can design the actual program together.
There is no fee for the initial proposal. It is prepared from the information you share and publicly available information.