About
At a Glance
The Career Development Services provide services for students, alumni, and employers. Our services include career coaching, resume development, experiential learning coordination, career readiness workshops, career assessments, field studies, and a variety of other services.
Our VISION
To implement innovative programming that prepares Benedict College students for lifelong success in diverse local and global communities.
Our MISSION
To transform student scholars into career-oriented, civic-minded, professionally qualified talent who represent #TheBESTofBC.
Career Development Services enhances students’ personal and professional growth from matriculation to graduation. We offer experiential learning and networking experiences that are facilitated by the college’s business and community partnerships.
We not only provide career skills, but services to ensure that students are career ready. Our focus is on:
The Student, Who are you? What are your strengths? What is your calling (passion) and how does it connect to the world?
Facilitating Interactions: We are here to create an atmosphere for meaningful student interactions where student-employer networks can connect, experiment, and grow. These networks consist of students, faculty, alumni, employers, businesses, organizations, and the community. Synergistic campus employer interactions, i.e. various workshops, info sessions, and advisory councils, provide curricular enhancements that can create intimacy, and more company site interfaces (shadow, mentor, job, internship, coach, special programs).
Mentoring and coaching in a more personalized way: We are here to prepare the student to navigate their path of personal and career development. Post-graduation, the relationship should continue as we serve alumni with lifelong learning, well-being, and mindfulness tools as they navigate their way into a future where their opportunities are endless.
The Service-Learning Program strives to empower Benedict College students to become citizens who are committed to making the world a better place. The program provides academically sound activities that are designed to engage students in optimal educational practices to expand knowledge, increase academic potential, enhance personal leadership and actively immerse students in the current program of study. The experience allows students to explore their intellectual curiosity, build confidence, and create habits that will allow them to become lifelong learners.
Benedict College is committed to using its faculty, students, and administrative resources to provide service to improve conditions in the African-American community. Consistent with this emphasis, Benedict College students are required to engage in service-learning activities designed to affect change and build leadership through academic-based opportunities that enhance students’ intellectual growth, civic responsibility, and career exploration.
"What a remarkable time we live in and what an especially exciting time to be a student! You really can do anything or be anything, If you have the imagination and the desire."
Program Staff
MR. BRIAN LOVE
Executive Director of Career Development Services
Brian Love has spent over 20 years at Liberty Mutual and Nationwide Insurance in corporate development as a manager, regional manager, and director. And the last 20 years as a Director, and Academic Program Manager in executive education and workforce development with The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business, and at the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
At Benedict College, Mr. Love is responsible for overseeing the college’s Professional Career Development and to develop and implement new approaches to a Guided Pathways Career model. Our intent is to integrate career services ( including career mapping, service-learning, co-curricular and experiential learning with employer workforce needs) into the college experience to Increase our students’ career fluency and to strengthen career readiness. After attending the University of South Carolina, Mr. Love was awarded a BA from the University of New Hampshire.
Vacant
Employer Relations & Career Development Manager
MR. STEPHON PORTER
Experiential Learning Manager
Stephon Porter brings over 8 years of experience in higher education working within Campus Recreation as a Coordinator of Operations and Leadership Development and Facility Operations Coordinator focusing on facility operations and student development. His passion has always been connecting and developing students for the subsequent phases of life.
As Experiential Learning Manager, Mr. Porter is responsible for consulting with and providing resources to faculty, staff, students, and community partners to develop and implement service-learning initiatives that align with the college’s mission of service and civic engagement. Mr. Porter obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sport Management from Old Dominion and a Master of Education in Interdisciplinary Studies from Campbell University.
Schedule an Appointment
- Sign in to your Handshake account
- Click the Career Center Tab in the top right corner of your screen
- Below the Benedict Banner, click on Appointments
- Click on Schedule A New Appointment and
- Choose A Category:
- Resume Development, Interview Practice, Career Counseling, or Service-Learning Counseling, Computer Use
- Then select among the available times