BECOME A CAREER CHAMPION
Thank you for your interest in the Career Champion Program!
The Career Champions program aims to provide faculty, staff, alumni & student leadership with an opportunity to learn how to best support students in becoming career ready. Pitt’s Career Center recognizes the importance of our faculty and staff partners in the career development process, and this program facilitates consistent University-wide messaging around career development and education for our students. In creating this network of trained university partners, Pitt’s Career Center seeks to capitalize on the great relationships that faculty, staff and alumni have with Pitt students to expand the reach of pertinent career development resources and to better prepare a greater number of students for their future careers.
Mission: To equip students with resources and connect them to opportunities in support of a successful transition from college to career.
Objectives
– Identify the resources available through the Career Center
– Restate the Career Development Ecosystem
– Describe Internship Prep Program
– Explain Happenstance Learning Theory
– Interpret NACE Career Competencies
– Complete Effective Career Center Referrals
Steps to Become a Career Champion!
We invite you to take the first step: Sign up for the Career Champion Program here. Signing up you will receive information, instructions on how to become a Certified Career Champion, an invitation to join the Career Champion Community and valuable resources.
The second step to becoming a certified Career Champion is to complete the short online asynchronous CANVAS modules. The Career Champion program is offered as a course through Pitt CANVAS module with content divided into two levels. The first level serves as an overview a resource-guide and the second dives deeper into the developmental journey towards career readiness. Upon completion of level two, participants are invited to a one-hour scenario workshop after which participants will receive a certificate and a digital badge to showcase membership to the Pitt Career Champion community. Link to Career Champion CANVAS modules
Level One– resources, research, and general information on career support and how to make referrals when appropriate.
Level Two– practice and preparation for our Career Champions training course. Level Two contains pre-work, discussions, and case studies to review prior to attending a Career Champions session.
The final and third step to becoming a trained Career Champion – Register for Career Champion Session – Scenario Discussion Workshop
*If you have any further questions or suggestions regarding the Pitt Career Champion program, please contact Ingrid Beute, Career Champion Program Coordinator at inb15@pitt.edu.
A 2017 Gallup/Strada study showed that nationally, 4 out of 10 students have never used their institution’s career services, whereas 46% of students report that they speak regularly with faculty members or staff about their career options.
“Thank you for your time and giving us this training. It was super helpful to us, and I’m sure it will be to other groups too!”
Rachel Parkes, Acting Director of Academic Advising, School of Computing and Information
