Small Team, Big Impact: How Career Services Teams of 1-5 Can Drive Outsized Outcomes (feat. Anita DeCianni Brown, Nick Edwards, and Tyler Orr)

What does it really take to scale career services when you’re a team of one—or leading a very small team? In this episode, host Meredith Metsker is joined by Anita DeCianni Brown (SUNY Empire State University), Nick Edwards (Hardin-Simmons University), and Tyler Orr (Southern Virginia University) for a candid conversation about doing more with less.

The panel shares practical strategies for expanding reach, leveraging technology, building faculty and campus partnerships, and advocating for resources—all while staying focused on meaningful student impact. Whether you’re building career services from the ground up or rethinking how to scale sustainably, this episode offers real-world insights, lessons learned, and encouragement for career services professionals at any institution size.

Resources from the episode:

• SUNY Empire’s Virtual Career Center (powered by uConnect)
• HSU’s Virtual Career Center (powered by uConnect)
• SVU’s Virtual Career Center (powered by uConnect)
• uConnect (Virtual career center platform)
• Labor Market Insights module by uConnect 
• Handshake
• CareerShift 
• FOCUS 2 
• Big Interview
• SkillsFirst
• YouScience
• LinkedIn Learning
• Forage
• Career Everywhere Community (free and open to any higher ed career services professional)

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