This document is designed to be utilized each year to help working learners and their supervisors: • Establish effective communication • Learn about key work tasks and how they will help working learners develop skills • Define and evaluate performance standards

This document is designed to be utilized each year to help working learners and their supervisors: • Establish effective communication • Learn about key work tasks and how they will help working learners develop skills • Define and evaluate performance standards

This document is designed to be utilized each year to help working learners and their supervisors: • Establish effective communication • Learn about key work tasks and how they will help working learners develop skills • Define and evaluate performance standards

Guide for Helping Working Learners Become Career Ready

Provide Working Learners with Appropriate Tasks

George Mason University has identified four (4) student learning objectives for all studentpositions on campus.

This guide includes various messages that Supervisors can share with their WLs and employees. The messages are brief, with content ranging from new hires, celebrating WL accomplishments, and updates. This guide is a useful resource for Supervisors sending messages to their WLs.

This resource is an example of an NSEAW/Event proposal. The guide illustrates various activities that can be used to celebrate and engage WL and a sample budget. This resource is useful for supervisors interested in celebrating their WL in a similar style or even as a guide for other events. 

This resource is to help Work+ Supervisors with first setting clear, developmental goals, then with providing regular, constructive feedback, next encouraging reflection on work experiences, and finally supporting with creating opportunities for skills application and growth. This resource can be used as a guide for supervisors to create a meaningful work experience for their working learners.

To help Work+ Supervisors create an actionable plan for integrating mentoring and NACEcompetencies into the working learner experience.

This blog style resource walks through the basics of project development as well as the value of providing working learners ownership over projects. It will support supervisors in justifying the time commitment with the value and opportunity for skill development of their working learners.

This resource walks through the basic steps of project development focused specifically on the role of student employees and supervisors when carrying out a project. This can be used as a supplemental document to the Working Learner Project Development Worksheet.

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.