Career Modules for Canvas

Level: Intermediate

Built to be completed after the mandatory Career Navigator: Kickstart your Career Journey module

In this module, students take the Next Steps in their career development journey to establish their career readiness by researching employers, developing networking skills, and making an action plan. 

Assignments

• Finding Career Options Activity (Est. time: 30 min.): Utilize Handshake or CareerShift to search for a job description of interest; Connect current experiences to role description. 

• Networking Discussion (Est. time: 60 min.): Share findings from exploration in the initial response with two peer responses. 
   
• Chat with a Professional Activity (Est. time: 60 min.): Prepare an elevator pitch and find a mentor on USF Link. 
  • *This activity’s timed length is estimated based on fulfilling the questions within the Canvas quiz. It will take substantially longer if students elect to participate in USF Link. 
     
• Create an Action Plan (Est. time: 90-120 min.): Use Focus2 to create an action plan in My Education and My Professional Development. Upload plan PDF to Canvas .

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Level: Intermediate 

In this module, students move beyond the established foundation of career readiness and scaffold their learning to analyze jobs and internships and build and tailor a resumé. 

Assignments

• Finding Career Options Activity (Est. time: 30 min.)
  Utilize Handshake or CareerShift to search for an internship description of interest; Connect current experiences to the role description.  
• Tailoring Your Resumé (Estimated time: 60 minutes)Use the Skills Extractor to identify skills in previously used internship description. Respond to questions to connect skills to resume bullet points and experiences.
   
• Resumé Writing Activity (Estimated time: 90-120 minutes)Create a resume, upload, revise, and receive feedback and analysis from Quinn 

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Level: Intermediate

In this module, students will be guided through the early stages of resumé building to a final, well-crafted document that is ready to be utilized for job and internship applications.

Assignments

• What are the differences? (Est. time: 20 min.): Compare a resumé and CV using an interactive graphic with a quick-check follow-up question (ungraded with automated feedback in self-check). 
   
• Tailoring Your Resumé (Est. time: 60 min.): Use the Skills Extractor to identify skills in a job description. Respond to questions to connect skills to resume bullet points and experiences.
   
• Resumé Writing Activity (Est. time: 90-120 min.): Create a resume, upload, revise, and receive feedback and analysis from Quinncia.

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Level: Advanced

In this module, students will develop skills and strategies needed to excel in job interviews by guiding them through types of interviews, preparation, techniques, and follow-up. 

Assignments

• Practice Interview Questions with Big Interview (Est. time: 15 min.): Practice responding to common interview questions using the tool Big Interview

• Complete an Interview with Quinn (Est. time: 30 min.): use Quinncia, an AI tool, to practice interviewing skills while receiving immediate feedback. 
   

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Level: Advanced

In this module, students will learn to utilize tools and strategies necessary to find and secure the right internship for their career goals.

Assignments

• Experiences Types Sort (Est. time: 15 min.): Sort common descriptors for different types of experiences. 

• Finding Career Options Activity (Est. time: 30 min.): Utilize Handshake or CareerShift to search for an internship description of interest; Connect current experiences to role description. 

• Tailoring Your Resumé (Est. time:: 60 min.): Use the Skills Extractor to identify skills in a job description. Respond to questions to connect skills to resume bullet points and experiences.
   

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Level: Advanced

In this module, students will be guided through the essential steps of preparing for a successful transition to graduate studies by helping navigate the complex application process, strengthen their academic profile, and make informed decisions about their future.

Assignments

• Finding a Graduate Program (Est. time: 30 min.): Search through established rankings and explore graduate program opportunities, rate top choices, and reflect on the program qualities.
   
• Tailoring Your CV (Est. time: 60 min.): Tailor CV to cater experiences to fit top graduate program choice by researching the values and focus of the audience who will review the application.
   
• CV Writing Activity (Est. time: 90-120 min.): Create a CV and submit the first draft.

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Level: All

In this activity, students will complete a pre- and post-assessment, usually before and at the end of an experience. The assessment allows students to self-assess their abilities across Career Readiness Competencies, share with raters, and view their results in a personal dashboard. 

The Career Readiness Report is a dynamic & interactive platform dedicated to providing students with 360-degree feedback on their individual ‘career readiness’ following an experiential learning opportunity – internships, co-ops, service learning, clinicals, research, student teaching, study abroad, etc.

Learn more about the CRR and see walkthroughs of the resource.

Level: All

In this activity, students will be asked to report their experiential learning experiences in one place for the university and instructors to track. Students can report internships, co-ops, undergraduate research, and part-time jobs (on or off-campus), etc. 

Once reported, these experiences can be instantly added to the student’s Handshake profile for employers to view if desired. Departments and colleges can request reports of their students when needed, as well as centralize this data collection.

This module is ideal for courses focused on any of these experiences.

Learn more about Handshake Experiences and see walkthroughs of the resource.