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The MU Career Center is committed to partnering with faculty and staff to provide them with a digital toolkit of articles, resources and instructional materials to help empower Mizzou students to discover and achieve their career goals.
Become a career advocate
Faculty and staff interested in championing student career development are encouraged to attend our Career Development Network (training sessions), subscribe to our monthly newsletter, and become a (free!) member of the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). These are the best ways to expand your knowledge of career development and to integrate career readiness into your advising and classrooms.
Develop student career readiness
Career readiness is a foundation of core competencies that broadly prepare college students for success in the workplace. The 8 competencies were developed by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) and apply to all students in every major. Faculty and staff have the unique opportunity to help students develop those skills and reflect on how their experiences in and out of the classroom are preparing them for the future, using the language of career readiness.
Career readiness resources
For faculty & staff
Learn simple ways to fully integrate career readiness into your curriculum and map your existing learning outcomes to career competencies to develop lifelong learners.
- Faculty Introduction to Career Readiness: A brief overview about how to introduce career readiness to students and integrate it into aspects of your course.
- Career readiness flier: A colorful Mizzou-branded 8.5 x 11 colorful poster featuring the definitions of career readiness and the 8 career competencies.
- Career readiness slide deck: A series of slides that explain each of the 8 career readiness competencies with detailed examples to help students identify their skills and evaluate their proficiency.
- Career readiness classroom integration: A worksheet to brainstorm ideas about enhancing student career readiness through assignments, activities, and advising. each career readiness competency that could be a classroom activity, a student assignment, or questions for one-on-one student conversations.
- Reflection worksheet: An exercise for students to map their skills and experiences to the 8 career readiness competencies.
- Ideas for Work Supervisors: Review ways in which campus supervisors can enhance student career readiness on the job and help student employees apply their skills toward relevant careers.
For students
We encourage students to take the Focus 2 Am I Career Ready? assessment to evaluate their skills and review the Career Ready Guides to learn about ways to gain experience and build skills for success.
Collaborate with the Career Center
We can provide engaging career readiness content to students through a variety of interactive methods rooted in learning outcomes and best practices. We encourage you to submit a presentation request or request a consultation.
