1. Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment
Christina Ingrassia// Assistant Director, Internships & Career Readiness

2. Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
What are the problems?
Need to prepare students for internships and employment
No excess credit hours
Need to keep costs low
Large population of students who work for USF
No coordinated support for Federal Work Study supervisors
Supervisors don’t have the time or training to do more with student employees

3. The Model Provide training as part of on-campus employment
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
The Model
Provide training as part of on-campus employment
Embed training into work
Correlates to how people learn
Elevates work into a learning opportunity
Allows us to pay students to acquire key career ready skills

4. Engaged Student Employment
ESE utilizes our Career Readiness Badging Program and other existing resources to develop career competencies over time; students earn an additional badge during each semester they are employed in an FWS or OPS position
Students start with the Professionalism Badge
Supervisors of FWS student employees select badges that align with work being performed, OR student employees select badges that align with future career goals in subsequent semesters
ESE program shifts campus culture to promote the development of more on-campus internships
ESE provides career competencies, resume support, and training in interview-oriented communications skills so that students succeed in securing competitive internship positions
Thus, ESE works to eliminate the perceived “skills-gap” often reported by employers

5. Off-Campus Internships & Cooperative Education
Performance Based Funding – Metric One //
How student employment impacts Metric 1
On-Campus Engaged
Student Employment
Off-Campus
Part-Time Employment
On-Campus
Internships
Off-Campus Internships
& Cooperative Education
Proximity to campus supporting student success 
 Depends
Professional experiences and transferrable skills
Depends
Career Readiness competency development
Career-building experience;
Potential transition into
full-time employment
Not Typically
Engaged Supervision and Mentoring
Ideally, Yes
Opportunity to transfer classroom learning
to work environment

6. Drawn from successful endeavors
We partnered with and built on areas of our campus that are already experiencing success with a form of this idea.

7. What We Built Supervisor Support Training
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
What We Built
Supervisor Support
Training
Job aids/Participation Guides
Intentional Conversations
Website/Canvas site
Training
--FWS Supervisor Training Sessions
--Want to expand this in the full launch
Job aids/Participation Guides
Quick Guide
--Grow model Intentional Conversations
--Recruiting in
--Student Employee Performance Evaluation
Website/Canvas site

8. What We Built Student Support Professionalism Webinar Series
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
What We Built
Student Support
Professionalism Webinar Series
Enrollment into Career Readiness Badging
Access to Intentional Developmental Conversations with their supervisors
Next steps for their career development (next badge?)
Professionalism Webinars
-Professionalism in the Workplace
-Green & Gold Standard of Service
-Communication Tips & Hacks
-Personalities & Attitudes in the Workplace
-Decision-Making & Personal Accountability
Career Readiness Badging
--Based on the NACE Competencies: Leadership, Communication, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, Professionalism, Global Fluency, Career Management
Intentional Conversations with Supervisors (using the IOWA GROW Model)-Guided Reflection on Work.

9. Job Recruitment Framework
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
Job Recruitment Framework
Critical Elements for Human Resources Department
Accurately reaching supervisors of student employees
Reporting out data
Accurate & complete hiring data
Connect with your HR department to align with your campus’s recruitment & hiring requirements

10. How We Resourced ESE Student Employment Coordinator
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
How We Resourced ESE
Student Employment Coordinator
On-campus Internship Coordinator
Graduate Assistant (Grad student)
Career Readiness Badging Peers (Undergrad students)

11. How Might You Do This? Find existing resources on your campus
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
How Might You Do This?
Find existing resources on your campus
Identify who and how you will support the key stakeholders
Build/maintain relationships with partners
Formulate timelines and Pilot
FWS as Financial Aid
Student labor supports & enhances office functions on campus
Identify who and how you will support the key stakeholders
Students
Supervisors
Build/maintain relationships with partners HR IT
Campus Partners with existing programs, best practices, and/or identified needs (CBCS)

12. Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
ESE Pilot Timeline
Time Frame
Action
July
FWS Award Allocations released (Financial Aid)
Departments posting positions through Human Resources in GEMS for approval/on
Engaged Student Employment model introduced by Office of Internships & Career Readiness
August
FWS Workgroup Meeting
Create ESE Model Resources (work with Marketing Team)
OICR conducts FWS Supervisor Trainings
Meet with HR regarding recruitment & hiring platform
September
CRB Professionalism Badge Series presentations are now webinars and are available for FWS student employees
FWS student employees Pilot group are enrolled in the USF Career Badging Readiness program and are tracked on completion of the Professionalism Badge
October
Continued support to Pilot personnel
Badging Peers providing support for Professionalism Badge & entire CRB program
November
Mid-month Deadline: ESE Professionalism webinars and completion of Professionalism Career Readiness Badge
December
Professionalism Badge processed & awarded
January
Launch of Engaged Student Employment to Tampa Campus

13. Our Next Steps Expand to OPS & Off-campus partners
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
Our Next Steps
Expand to OPS & Off-campus partners
More Supervisor support
In-depth training
“Support Group” for 1st-time supervisors with best practices
Assessing, evaluating, and managing students’ progress in ESE
Collect & Report Data

14. What does success look like?
Supporting Career Development through Engaged Student Employment//
What does success look like?
Students prepared for internships & full-time employment
No excess credit hours
Low cost
Coordinated support for Federal Work Study supervisors
Perfectly aligned with USF’s Student Success Mission, because we pay to support career success
Additional Benefits
More student employment converted to internships
CRB Peers more prepared for internships & full time employment

15. For further info:
Christina Ingrassia