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Student Employees Achieve (SEA) Badge

Student Employees Achieve (SEA) Badge

Want to show future employers that your student employment makes you career ready?

Join the Student Employees Achieve badging program!

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Application deadline: Sept. 18 to join the Fall 2024 cohort

 

 

Purpose:

Students who complete the badge will be proficient in application of the NACE career readiness competencies in their student employment role and prepared to transfer those skills to post-graduate work opportunities. This process of reflection, connection, and discovery delivers on the 4D Experience, providing opportunities that support students’ intellectual growth, character growth, well-being, and sense of purpose.

Outcomes:

  • Students will identify how they are building career skills in their student employment.
  • Students will see connections between their student employment and their future careers.
  • Students will feel confident in articulating those connections for themselves and others.
  • Students will have a strong sense of self as professional and what that means for their future careers.

 

How it works:

All program meetings will be held on Zoom, in the interest of accessibility for all student employees. Close captions will be enabled, but please let us know if there are any other measures we can take to help you fully participate!

Participants will be enrolled in a Canvas course where they will engage in guided reflection on their 4D student employee experience and interact with other members of their cohort. Before each meeting, they will review assigned pre-work to prepare for the conversation.

The fall 2024 quarter cohort will focus on the career skills of Professionalism, Critical Thinking, and Communication, with the dates as follows:

  • Tuesday, Sep. 24, 2024, 6-7 pm MT – Professionalism (led by Elise Goss-Alexander, Director of Student Employment)
  • Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, 6-7 pm MT – Communication: Writing Styles Across the Workplace (led by Dr. Geoffrey Stacks, University Writing Center)
  • Tuesday Oct. 8, 2024, 6-7 pm MT – Critical Thinking: Design and Assessment (led by Dr. Stephen Riley, Director of Academic Assessment)
  • Tuesday Oct. 15, 2024, 6-7 pm MT – Career & Self-Development: Transferable Skills (campus-wide open event, led by Marissa Ronquillo, Assistant Director for Professional Mentoring)

“By design, the program tackles real life workplace skills, something that is not usually learnt in different courses, making these courses exceptional for the improvement of the workplace.”

– Fall 2023 participant

The winter 2025 quarter cohort will focus on the career skills of Leadership, Teamwork, and Equity & Inclusion, with the dates as follows:

  • TBD

“Before this event, I was under the impression that certain qualities are essential to being a successful leader. During the session, we were asked to identify “gifts” and “needs” within ourselves… I am also inspired to re-think my definition of who CAN and CANNOT be a leader; I hope to occupy more leadership roles in the future such that I may understand the kind of leader I am.”

– Winter 2023 participant

 

Completion and Recognition:

Participants who successfully complete either the fall or the winter cohort will be awarded a professional development badge. Participants who successfully complete both cohorts by the end of winter quarter will be awarded the stackable SEA Badge in April 2025. They will be encouraged to share it on LinkedIn, with professors, and with current and future employers as a mark of their career readiness. They will also be highlighted across campus and in employer communications.

Students who earn either badge will be eligible for an exclusive mock interview program in spring 2025, where they can connect with real local Denver employers while practicing showing off their skills.

“[The student] was very well prepared and did EXCELLENT in her mock interview. She was articulate, well prepared and would be a GREAT candidate wherever she lands!”

– Mock Interview Host, Cherry Creek School District, spring 2024

“[The student] is a rock star and more than ready to wield the international development torch of the next generation of development leaders! He did a great job and I wish him all of the best.”

– Mock Interview Host, USAID, spring 2023

 

Participants:

All student employees are eligible to participate, no matter your degree level, your funding source, your immigration status, or how long you’ve worked on campus!

We especially encourage participation from students with limited previous experience with career development, students who are re-entering the workforce, students who are still exploring their career goals, and students who come from communities underrepresented at DU.

 

Please direct any questions to the Student Employment team at stuemp@du.edu!