Career Readiness
Department on campus that provides career support for all UA undergraduates
What is SECD?
Name an internship coordinator on campus and their college
What is ex. Shanda Romans in Psychology?
An SECD program that funds experiential learning during the summer for eligible students
What is the Summer Internship Stipend program?
a first place students can go when they have no idea where to even start with their career paths, to look for internships, and get connected to additional opportunities and career support
What is LifeLab?
The UA's online platform where jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities are posted and marketed out
What is Handshake?
Group of folks who meet about 3 times a semester to talk about policies, best practices, and challenges in the world of undergraduate internships based out of the College of Education
What is the Internship Council?
The first step a student should take in in their internship journey
What is setting up a Handshake profile?
Name the UA resource that students can utilize if they are looking for professional clothing (blazers, dress pants, vests, etc...)
What is the Clothes Closet?
True or False: SECD career fairs are geared towards students who are ready to interview for an internship or a full-time position.
What is FALSE?
An online, asynchronous transferable skills development program that helps undergraduates employed on campus further develop their communication, leadership, and teamwork skills
What is Build the Skill?
An opportunity that directly supports faculty who are full-time, tenured, tenure-track, and career-track faculty to design undergraduate courses that integrate community engaged experiential learning and that provide 10 faculty, whose undergraduate courses address issues, topics, and stakeholders in the Borderlands region, with a $3500 courtesy of Project ADELANTE
What is the Experiential Learning Design Accelerator?
the roadmap of seven steps that a student can take in order to make it more likely to land an internship, as per SECD
What is the Big 7?
A program that trains undergraduates to help peers find research opportunities that fit their interests, time, and needs; these students also give workshops and presentations
Who are the Undergraduate Research Ambassadors (URAs)?
Employers start looking for interns _______ months before the start date.
What is eight?
Name the program that runs single-day experiences students can participate in to gain exposure to a professional workplace
What is the Job Shadow program?
virtual and in-person SECD consecutive trainings that are meant to help staff and faculty learn how to best support students in their career journeys and connect with on-campus resources
What is Career Champions?
Name the document that allows the student and their internship site create goals and structure for a robust experiential learning experience and that is required for receiving academic credit for an internship
What is the Internship Work Plan?
Set of workshops that is focused on the intersection of financial wellness, mental health, and career development that are held mainly in the Guerrero Student Center
What is La Chamba Workshops Series/Borderlands Career Readiness Program?
Name the number one attribute employers are looking for on a candidate's resume
What is problem solving skills?
Name the difference between career development and career readiness.
What is:
Two frameworks of career support: one supports student in their pursuits of their career goals, and one supports the development of the professional identity of the student
National organization that "is the leading source of information on the employment of the college educated" and provides established career competencies from which SECD frames their work
What is the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)?
Paid internships lead to increase in...?
What is increase 1) salary after graduation, 2) career satisfaction, 3) belief that their education helped them achieve their professional goals, and 4) belief that their education education was worth it?
An SECD resource where students can upload resume and cover letters to be reviewed by our career education staff and receive edits/feedback
What is the Document Dropbox?
More then ____% of employers expect to offer sign up bonuses
What is 50%?