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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 presentation is a supervisor training providing Work+ Supervisors with a comprehensive understanding of their role as a WL Supervisor. It incorporates data on working learners nationally and Supervisors at ASU. This resource is helpful for Supervisors to review to remember the why, the goal, and the benefits of Work+. 

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 worksheet will guide a working learner through the process of developing a project that meets a need in their department or office.

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 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.

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 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 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.