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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 blog-style worksheet style resource outlines 8 tips to using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for your career exploration responsibility. Outlining the different tips includes some overarching pointers as well as potential prompts that can be used by the students in their own career exploration.

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.

This worksheet style resource outlines the definition of career readiness, core competencies and their importance, and allows students to consider ways they have/do demonstrate these skills and ways they can grow in demonstration of that skill with self reflecting prompts and questions which can be done individually or with their supervisor.

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.