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The University of Michigan Dearborn developed a Campus Student Employee Handbook to provide to new student employees when they are hired. This handbook is meant to inform student employees about their rights and responsibilities and offer considerations to gain and practice skills and build a robust student employment experience.

The University of Michigan Dearborn presented this poster to their campus leadership team during their Spring 2024 Retention Summit. It highlights on-campus student employment as a high impact practice. This example can serve as an inspiration for how you might tell the story of student employment at your institution.

This is an example of a survey that is facilitated at The University of Michigan Dearborn. The team focused on student employment and student success initiatives leverage this as a way to understand and gather the feedback from students currently participating in student employment. The feedback, barriers and needs identified are prioritized in the ongoing work of their campus core team. Utilizing this survey method can be an easy way to begin engaging working learners in the co-design of student employment on your campus.

This is an example of a survey that is faciliatated at The University of Michigan Dearborn.  The team focused on student employment and student success initatives leverage this as a way to understand and gather the feedback of student employment supervisors across the institution.  The feedback, barriers and needs identified are prioritized in the ongoing work of their campus core team. Utilizing this survey method can be an easy way to begin engaging supervisors in the co-design of student employment on your campus.

This resource overviews NACE Career Readiness and overviews the eight competencies and provides examples of interview questions that can be related to each skill or competency to be used with student employees you interview.

This blog style resource outlines a variety of ways to showcase your Work+ Collective Goals and Accomplishments by leveraging what may already be occurring at your institution. With embedded images and links to resources, it will walk you through opportunities to utilize such as poster presentations, articles or write ups from news outlets or newsletters, end of year reporting or presenting, and websites and social media platforms.

This resource provides working learners insight into how to prepare for an interview, tips and tricks for the day of their interview, and next steps to take after their interview. The intention is to focus on the unique nature of student employment at a college or university and support the student in utilizing their resources accordingly.

This resource overviews the importance of equity in hiring processes for working learners and introduces hiring matrixes while providing guidance on implementation and use of hiring matrices into a supervisor’s hiring process.

This resource defines a variety of interview strategies and styles and overviews considerations for each while including some sample interview questions and additional overarching considerations for both supervisors and the student candidates.

Empathy intervieiwng of both working learners and superviors is a vital part of the design thinking process.  This video provides a brief overview and guidance for conducting empathy interviews.  

So what is Work+ and what are we hoping to accomplish? Check out this quick overview shared with our partners at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) by Brandee Popaden-Smith, Director of Work+Learn at ASU.  A clear vision of what we hope student employment will be for every working learner at every institution across the US and beyond.

Follow along with our partners from University of Central Florida as they share some of the work the team completed to define the opportunities,scope and impact of the solutions they hope to test.

This video highlights the work of the University of Central Florida (UCF) during their two-day design thinking sprint.  In this short video, the process of testing solutions to their "what if" questions is showcased.  After completing empathy interviews with both working learners and supervisors of student employees, the team identified barriers and from those developed "what if" questions they wanted to solve for.  In this particular instance, the UCF team is presenting to working learners about  their solution to improve and streamline the hiring process for student employment roles on-campus.  Working learners then provide feedback that will help the team iterate on their solution.

Check out this quick video that touches on the importance of equity and some questions to consider in guiding the work that you do. 

Empathy mapping is important in understanding, organizing, and analyzing your empathy interviewing notes. This video provides a demonstration of empathy mapping.