Ready for What? Career Readiness in a Shifting Market

The National Society of Leadership and Success
Ready for What? Career Readiness in a Shifting Market
Career readiness used to be a fixed target. It isn’t anymore.What employers want has shifted. What students want from work has shifted. And AI is rewriting entry-level roles faster than any curriculum can keep up with. Students, meanwhile, remain confident: 83.8% say their education has prepared them for the workforce. Only 37% of recruiters agree.
Join The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS) on Thursday, September 17, at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT for a panel-style roundtable on what career readiness means in 2026, drawing on findings from the “State of Higher Ed 2026” report. The panel will look at where the target has moved, why students are still aiming at the old one and what institutions can do right now to help them adjust. 
This webinar will discuss:
What recruiters rank first when hiring and why it isn’t what students expect 
The experience gap: only 19.4% of undergraduates have completed an internship, even though 94% of those who did say it prepared them for their career 
Why only 46% of students have ever used career services, when 84.3% admittedly know it exists 
How AI fluency is quickly becoming an employability signal rather than a classroom concern 
Practical ways to build readiness into the programming you already run, without adding to a strained budget 
Ready for What? Career Readiness in a Shifting MarketThursday, September 17 at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
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Can’t attend the webinar? You should still register; all registrants will receive a recording of the webinar and a copy of the presentation slides.