Student Employee Learning Outcomes
- Skill Identification and Improvement: Student employees will identify 2-3 professional skills (including customer service) from a designated skill list and demonstrate measurable improvement over the course of each semester via a self-evaluation form.
- Skill Reflection: Students will articulate their growth in identified skills (including customer service) by reflecting on specific examples of growth via a self-evaluation form.
Skills: Customer Service, Initiative, Leadership, Self – Awareness, Risk Management, Real Self – Care, Time Management, Resiliency, Adaptability, Time Management, Communication, Professionalism, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, Technology
Recreation and Wellness Services understands that all our student employees, regardless of their position, are working towards a career. We are committed to ensuring that our students are career-ready. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) defines Career Readiness as: the attainment and demonstration of requisite competencies that broadly prepare college graduates for a successful transition into the workplace.
NACE has determined that specific competencies make an individual career ready. The following list contains the NACE competencies in which student employees will develop to prepare them for their careers:
- Career & Self Development: Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization.
- Communication: Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.
- Critical Thinking: Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
- Leadership: Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
- Professionalism: Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
- Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities.
- Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.
We also use the Flashes GROW framework (Guided Reflection on Work), a nationally recognized model that allows for brief, structured conversations between student employees and their supervisors to help students connect the skills and knowledge they are gaining in the classroom with the work they are doing, and vice versa.
Recreation and Wellness Services has adopted these competencies and frameworks because they fit within our own mission, vision, and values. We will ensure that each of our student employees will receive professional development in each competency through trainings, in-services, evaluations, general work experience, and more. It is our goal to be more than just a paycheck. We hope to help each student employee progress down their career path to be successful after college.
