Dimitris Sampsonidis is a Career Counsellor at the University of Crete in Greece. He was recently ranked one of the most influential people on LinkedIn in Greece and he has been a strong advocate for advancing and promoting the field of career services in Greece. In his spare time, he's pursuing a Ph.D. from the University of Crete on the topic of polymathy and multipotentiality.In this episode we discuss:

• The similarities and differences between the Greek and U.S. systems of career services in higher education, and even the differences between Greece and the broader European Union (E.U.).
• The challenges of hosting employers for career fairs and recruiting events when your university is on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea!
• The quote from the very first episode of the Career Services Leadershipthat brought him to tears and continues to inspire and motivate him today.
• Why, as career services leaders, it's important for us to be in harmony with our own purpose so that we can better help students find their purpose.

Dimitris, thank you for the thought-provoking conversation!

Andy Rabitoy is the Executive Director of Foster Career Services for the UW Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.

Andy’s 23 years in career services spans three campus environments. He is active in the industry and has held key committee positions in major associations including National Association of Colleges and Employers and MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers), and recently served as MPACE President in 2022-2023.

In this episode we discuss:

• The exciting once-in-a-career opportunity Andy had 13 years ago to build a new career center from scratch for the UW Foster School of Business, complete with moving into a new building and hiring a new team.
• His "alive right now" leadership style, guided by themes of building personal relationships, extending high levels of trust, and being adaptable and transparent.
• Why helping students get comfortable with being uncomfortable and exposing them to things and people outside their classroom and outside their peer group is so important to his team's strategy.
• How a moment of disagreement and vulnerability in front of his team helped him access a new level of a leadership... and so much more!

Friends and colleagues mentioned in this episode: Craig Schmidt, Andy Ceperley, Neil Murray, and Susan Terry.

Amie Hammond, Ed.D. is the executive director of Career Services at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). Amie has nearly three decades of experience in higher education and recently earned a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Fresno. She is also an active leader within the MPACE (Mountain Pacific Association of Colleges & Employers).

In this episode we discuss:

• The moment early in her career when she decided she wanted to one day be a career services director.
• Her unique reporting to the AVP of Student Affairs and Equity and Transition and how being in the Equity and Transition unit influences her approach to the work.
• Her dissertation research which examines the values congruence of student affairs practitioners in a neoliberal context (and where I first learned the term "academic capitalism"!).

• Why she identifies strongly with an Authentic Leadership model and how she uses Bolman and Deal's Four Frames model... and so much more!

Amie, thank you for a great conversation!

P.S. If you are curious about Amie's dissertation, check it out here: https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/r207tw66g