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WL Jeopardy

This resource is a jeopardy game in the form of a presentation. The resource is very useful since it's already filled out and can be personalized, if needed, by Supervisors. The resource is useful for Supervisors to recognize their WLs or to celebrate them with an engaging activity.

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 guide includes a link that takes Supervisors to a live NACE Bingo Card, which they can paste into their browsers or share with their WL. The resource is a helpful activity Supervisors can give to their WL so they can connect their experiences to the NACE competencies. Supervisors are also able to recognize their WLs' accomplishments through this activity. 

This resource is a Jeopardy activity that includes sections, prompts, and prizes. The resource has prompts that WL has experienced through their jobs. A helpful guide for Supervisors who are looking to include a fun activity to recognize their WL accomplishments, to celebrate, or to be done in a team meeting. 

This resource includes a Bingo activity with 25+ prompts that relate to the NACE competencies. The prompts are targeted towards WL and include the related competency. This resource is useful for Supervisors looking to recognize their WL accomplishments publicly or privately, or as an activity for a team meeting.

This resource is a social media posting schedule pre-filled with examples of posts. The examples on the template include various posts and content types with examples of descriptions. The template is helpful for Supervisors, WL, and Administrators to incorporate a consistent posting schedule ahead of time. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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