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Discussing the NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) career competencies is crucial for students' career readiness and success. These competencies provide a framework for students to develop and demonstrate essential skills that employers value. By discussing these competencies, students can gain a better understanding of the skills and attributes they need to succeed in the workplace. This discussion can also help students identify areas where they may need to improve and take proactive steps to develop these skills. Northern Arizona University has created the following tool to help their student employees to think more deeply and reflect on their current experience with each of the competencies.  Their supervisor then uses this as a discussion tool and an opportunity to identify action items, opportunities for growth and experiences that can support the student within their student employment role.

This resource is a template for supervisors to give to their working learners to gather information on how to best recognize their working learners.

This resource includes fifteen prompts to be used by supervisors to encourage empathy in conversations with their working learners.

Many units find value in adding Work+ to their student job postings, here are various sample descriptions specific to ASU that you can include with your postings! Please feel free to find the description that works best for your department and alter it as you see fit.

This tool is intended to support working learners to begin connecting their current student employment experience directly to their future career goals. This tool, while specific to ASU, can be easily recreated or modified for use by working learners at other institutions.

The Work+ Accomplishment Tracker is a resource currently utilized with ASU working learners to support them in the tracking and articulation of their experiences related to each of the NACE Career Competencies.

Templates and ideas for ways to recognize your working learner(s) during National Student Employee Appreciation Week.

Worksheet to help working learners prepare their own powerful introduction in order to be ready to hold conversation in professional settings and networking opportunities.