Career Champions

Career Everywhere

Professor leading volunteer project and giving advice

Career conversations with students can happen anywhere and everywhere! That’s why we’ve created the Career Champions program. Career Champions form a network of faculty, staff and academic advisers helping students achieve career success. By building career development capacity campus-wide, we increase the likelihood that all students will find the career support and resources they need throughout their time at the University of Arizona.

The Career Champions program provides opportunities for University faculty, staff and academic advisers to better understand the career development resources and support available on-campus and through SECD. Through a series of capacity-building conversations, the Career Champions program strives to:

  • Maximize access to career development support for all students to enhance career outcomes and success.​
  • Enable and empower all faculty & staff to provide career development programming and services to students. ​
  • Integrate resources and programs into classroom and academic experiences for students. ​
  • Identify potential areas for collaboration, partnership, and integration within other campus units.

Join us on April 26 for our next training session!

Register

“Thank you so much for the training! I feel like I have a bigger toolbox to help encourage and guide
students with career conversations. I personally feel supported knowing I can reach out anytime to SECD for help”

– Career Champion program participant

Training Sessions Overview

Faculty and staff who complete the series receive a certificate of completion, the Career Champion designation, a window placard for identification as a career-supporting resource on campus, and recognition on SECD’s Career Champions webpage.

Part 1: Career Readiness Foundations

This one-hour training serves as an essential introduction to the career development frameworks and resources that Student Engagement & Career Development utilizes to support students.

Part 2: Best Practices in Career Coaching

This one-hour training discusses best practices in career coaching including appreciative inquiry, goal-setting activities, and career tools and resources to help students reach their goals.

Part 3: Creating Career Development Experience

This 90-minute workshop helps participants create plans to incorporate career development and experiential learning into existing programs, services, and curriculum, including identifying collaboration opportunities on-campus.

CAREER COACHING INTENSIVES

Complete the full series on one day at our upcoming half-day intensive training. In-person, April 26 from 9:30am – 12:30pm.

For questions, contact Kylee Vanek, Associate Director, Career Education at kvanek@arizona.edu.

Register For April 26 Half-Day Training