For Campus Supervisors
In Here to Career, campus employers serve as mentors who instill the knowledge and competencies needed to ensure a successful career after graduation.
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Developing Career Ready Students
As on-campus student employee supervisors, it’s important to understand the key competencies for career readiness.
How we interact, train, assist and develop our student employees not only impacts the student, but the department they are working in. On-campus student employment can connect students to a future opportunity, foster working relationships and allow the student to participate in a collaborative, unique culture.
All of these initiatives ensure that these campus experiences fulfill our program mission to create college educated and career ready students.
Watching the students grow throughout their time here is really fun to watch. Many of them start out as timid freshmen and blossom into outgoing seniors."
- shared by a Campus Supervisor
Here to Career Program Competencies
- Career and Self-Development
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Equity and Inclusion
- Leadership
- Professionalism
- Teamwork
- Technology
Based on nationally recognized criteria from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).
Enhancing Your Department with Student Employees
What better way to get to know and stay in touch with the student population than having a student employee in your office? Hiring a student employee brings enthusiasm, curiosity, and a spirit of experiential learning to your office or department, all while offering work experiences that translate to critical skills for students. Plus, it’s an inexpensive way to boost unit capacity.
Supervisor Commitment
Supervisors in the Here to Career program are committed to:
- Posting all student on-campus jobs through Bullseye powered by Handshake
- Ensuring the job description is mapped to at least one NACE competency and is reflected in the online job posting through Bullseye powered by Handshake
- Attending Supervise Student Employees 101
- Inform students of professional development opportunities available
- Providing student employees with performance evaluations
- Encourage your student employees to complete a pre and post-experience evaluation designed, implemented, and disseminated by the division of Student Life
Detailed information is available through UBLearns, which supervisors are given access to once they enroll in the program.
Here’s How We Can Help
Developed exclusively for the Here to Career program, supervisors will be provided training and resources specific to their work with student employees. Through UBLearns, supervisors will have access to:
- NACE Career Readiness Competencies Overview
- Training ideas and activities for each of the NACE competencies
- “How To’s” for facilitating reflection and developmental conversations
- Rubrics to evaluate employee performance
- Checkpoints to ensure timely completion of key requirements
Supervisors are given access to UBLearns once they enroll in the program.
In addition, UB Human Resources and Organizational Development & Training (OD&T) offers training throughout the year to help supervisors prepare and excel in their supervision of student employees.
As part of the Student Life Here to Career program, campus supervisors will have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative culture and be a part of something bigger in student development and preparedness. Help your student employee gain the knowledge, expertise, and skills they need to succeed in the workforce after they leave UB.
The Future of Here to Career
Ultimately Student Life is working toward the common goal of advancing faculty, staff, and students in their ongoing pursuit of excellence. As the Here to Career program evolves more globally across the entire University, we will develop additional tools and resources, as well as a collaborative forum for supervisors to give and receive support.
Ready to Post Your Student Position?
Online via Bullseye
As a Campus Employer, Bullseye powered by Handshake makes it easy to post your student employee position. You will also find video tutorials on everything from creating an employer account, posting a campus job, and how to search for student profiles.
Here to Career On-Campus Job Fair
The Here to Career On-Campus Job Fair is a chance for you to meet with offices and departments looking to hire students for work-study and student assistant positions. The fair typically takes place at the beginning of the fall semester.
For more information on Here to Career, contact:
Student Life Here to Career Program
Student Life
University at Buffalo
150 Student Union, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: (716) 645-6469