How to work with Career Services to support student learning
Students develop valuable skills through their academic work, but many find it hard to see how their learning applies beyond the classroom. Supporting students to make this connection can strengthen their sense of purpose and deepen their connection to their academic coursework.
Career Services can partner with you to integrate career development into courses in ways that complement your teaching goals.
Bring Career Services into your classroom
One of the easiest ways to integrate career development into your course is through a customized workshop or guest lecture.
Career educators can contribute to your course in person or online, with sessions tailored to your discipline, course level, and learning goals.
Workshop topics include:
- Helping students identify and articulate their skills: Support students to recognize the transferable skills they are developing through their coursework and to describe them with confidence.
- Connecting course learning to work and professional competencies: Help students explore how ideas and practices from your discipline apply across different fields, roles, and societal contexts.
- Reflecting on academic experiences and building personal narratives: Guide students to find meaning and purpose in their education and to communicate their experiences in thoughtful and coherent ways.
- Exploring pathways in your program or discipline: Introduce students to future directions connected to their studies, including further education and diverse career paths.
- Building professional and academic connections: Support students to create connections with communities, mentors, and opportunities in their areas of interest.
- Creating effective job applications: Help students translate their academic experiences into strong résumés, CVs, and cover letters.
- Strategies for job searching: Guide students in how to find opportunities and learn about the labour market.
- Preparing for interviews: Build students’ confidence and skills for presenting themselves in job interviews and other selection processes
Career curriculum resources
We offer resources and activities that you can integrate into your teaching. These materials support students as they explore, reflect, and plan their careers, while reinforcing key learning outcomes from your course.
Resources include:
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Online career exploration tools and programs
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Classroom activities and reflection exercises
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Frameworks for identifying and articulating skills
These tools are ready to use and adaptable to multiple disciplines.
Plan your course with career development in mind
Whether you're designing a new course or refining an existing one, we can support you to build career exploration into your course in ways that align with your academic priorities.
We can work with you to:
- Design assignments that support reflection and skill development
- Align career-related learning with course outcomes
- Develop customized materials for your students