{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Career Everywhere","title":"Career Services + Student Affairs: A Blueprint for Partnership (feat. Nicole Hall and Christian Garcia)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3729,"description":"In this episode of the Career Everywhere Podcast, host Meredith Metsker sits down with Dr. Nicole Hall, Senior Associate Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students, and Christian Garcia, Associate Vice President of Career and Professional Development, at the University of Virginia. Christian is also Nicole's direct report—a dynamic that shapes nearly everything they discuss.\nThe conversation opens with trends the two surfaced during a recent fireside chat at the Virginia ACE conference: the deepening of skills-based hiring, a widening gap between internship demand and supply, the state of Virginia's growing involvement in internship policy, and the layered, still-unsettled role AI is playing in the job market.\nNicole, who currently chairs the NACE Board of Directors, brings a national data lens. Christian brings the day-to-day view from UVA's career center, where he's seeing high fair attendance and strong demand for one-on-one advising even as some employers pull back on-campus interviewing (or “on-grounds” as they call it at UVA).\nFrom there, the episode turns to what makes this pairing unique: Nicole's path from 20+ years leading career centers into executive student affairs leadership, and her decision—negotiated during her own UVA hiring process—to bring career services into her portfolio rather than let it sit as a separate, siloed unit.\nChristian and Nicole talk candidly about what it's like to work together day to day, how they balance \"reading the tea leaves\" with tactical execution, and the advice they'd give other career leaders hoping to build stronger relationships with student affairs (or vice versa).\nKey takeaways:Career Everywhere means shared ownership, not shared job titles. Christian compares it to a mental-health-referral mindset: you don't need to be a career counselor to play a role in a student's career readiness—faculty, staff, peers, and alumni all have a part.Skills-based hiring is deepening, not just spreading. Nicole points...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TrzA0-LSinxoJEe66KJpatUxUh4t2w3jXW0NZ0qGHUw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3MjE5LzE2NzE2/NTg2NDAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}