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This resource overviews best practices for job description postings and provides some best practices while breaking down the most commonly used sections of a job description. This resource will be helpful for those responsible for writing job descriptions, revamping job posting processes at their institution, or needing support in how to ensure working learner job descriptions are written with intention and purpose.

This resource talks a working learner and supervisor through the process of defining aprofessional accomplishment/career goal by first breaking it down into smaller goals and working throughthe details of accomplishing that goal. This can be used to guide a conversation between a workinglearner and their supervisor or as a professional development opportunity for a working learner andsubsequent accountability with their supervisor.

This resource, 10 Tips to Elevate the Student Employment Experience, provides actionable strategies for supervisors to enhance the impact of student employment. It includes guidance on creating meaningful job descriptions, fostering skill development through professional opportunities and feedback, and building a supportive community. The tips also emphasize the importance of mentorship, recognition, and storytelling to help students connect their roles to their career aspirations, making their employment experience both productive and empowering.

Design thinking, a human-centered approach to problem-solving, can help program designers understand the unique challenges and opportunities faced by student employees. By empathizing with students, defining the problem, ideating potential solutions, prototyping ideas, and testing them with student and student employee supervisors, program designers can create a program that is innovative, effective, and sustainable. The following resource details a number of idea generation activities that can be leveraged as part of the design thinking process. 

This resource reviews the importance of student employment in career readiness and theimportance of supervisors supporting working learner’s short and long term career goals including how toapproach the conversation, exploring strengths and motivations, setting goals collaboratively, andcontinuing the conversations.

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How do we scale student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) on campuses where there is limited supply? Student employment, not an official HIP yet, has potential to fill this gap. This article describes approaches taken by two campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system to trans-form work-study/student employment into high-impact learning experiences.

Each of our inaugural Institute universities were paired together to interview, learn from and share valuable insights and work with one another. Each institution was then charged with writing a blog that summarized key takeaways and learning. In this series of blogs, we'll delve into the innovative approaches, best practices, and success stories from universities across the country. From career development initiatives to performance management strategies, we'll explore how universities are enhancing the student employee experience ensuring their roles are preparing them for the future workforce. Join us as we uncover the secrets to maximizing the potential of student employment programs and creating meaningful opportunities for students on campus. This blog highlights the efforts of the University of Illinois-Chicago and was written by the University of Minnesota.

Brandee Popaden-Smith, Director of Work+Learn at Arizona State Unversity, shares updates about how ASU is continuing to focus on scaling work-integrated learning opportunites for all students. She shares key learnings about how scaling happens effectively and what true integration looks like at a large institution like ASU. Finally she discusses how the team has leveraged human-centered design, as well as, a national collective approach to advance this work both at ASU and other institutions across the US.

Each of our inaugural Institute universities were paired together to interview, learn from and share valuable insights and work with one another. Each institution was then charged with writing a blog that summarized key takeaways and learning. In this series of blogs, we'll delve into the innovative approaches, best practices, and success stories from universities across the country. From career development initiatives to performance management strategies, we'll explore how universities are enhancing the student employee experience ensuring their roles are preparing them for the future workforce. Join us as we uncover the secrets to maximizing the potential of student employment programs and creating meaningful opportunities for students on campus. This blog highlights the efforts of the University of Minnesotaand was written by University of Illinois, Chicago.

Each of our inaugural Institute universities were paired together to interview, learn from and share valuable insights and work with one another. Each institution was then charged with writing a blog that summarized key takeaways and learning. In this series of blogs, we'll delve into the innovative approaches, best practices, and success stories from universities across the country. From career development initiatives to performance management strategies, we'll explore how universities are enhancing the student employee experience ensuring their roles are preparing them for the future workforce. Join us as we uncover the secrets to maximizing the potential of student employment programs and creating meaningful opportunities for students on campus. This blog highlights the efforts of the University of Maine. It was written by their colleagues at Northern Arizona University.

Each of our inaugural Institute universities were paired together to interview, learn from and share valuable insights and work with one another. Each institution was then charged with writing a blog that summarized key takeaways and learning. In this series of blogs, we'll delve into the innovative approaches, best practices, and success stories from universities across the country. From career development initiatives to performance management strategies, we'll explore how universities are enhancing the student employee experience ensuring their roles are preparing them for the future workforce. Join us as we uncover the secrets to maximizing the potential of student employment programs and creating meaningful opportunities for students on campus. This blog highlights the efforts of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and was written by Arizona State University.

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