Gustavus Faculty/Staff

Career Development partners with faculty and staff to provide students with resources and tools to assist with student career development. Whether you are a faculty advisor, FTS advisor, internship supervisor or student employee supervisor, we hope the information below will help you engage your advisees in their career development.

Attend our next Career and Vocation Champions training! Please invite any Gustavus Faculty or Staff who may be interested in participating, the registration form is here and after filling it out they will be sent a link and more information for the training when it is completed. 

FTS/Faculty Advisors

Recommend to students:

• • Focus2 Fast, self-assessments with immediate results suggesting careers which are mapped to Gustavus majors. Click blue Registration button; the access code is gusties.
  • Strong Interest Inventory for students undecided about majors or specific careers.
  •  Peer Career Advising for students needing assistance on resumes and cover letters.
  • Industry specific groups and individuals to follow on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.). 
  • ***NEW *** Candid Career which has videos of hundreds of informational interviews and internship/job search strategies. Here is a List of video playlists on career development topics. Here is a List of video playlists for each college semester.
  • Student groups on campus related to major/career field.

Refer students to:

• • Career Development website
  • Semester by Semester Career Video Playlists: This is a curriculum by college semster of career development videos from why go to the Career Development office to how to prepare for first day at a new job. Each list includes number of videos and total time.
  • Spreadsheet of all video playlists alphebetically: This is a list of all the video playlists to refer students to; may videos do have quizzes to make them easy to assign and grade. 
  • Health Professions Cluster website

Internship and Career Exploration Supervisors

• Faculty Internship Sponsor Information
• Faculty Sponsor Vision Statement

Additional Resources

• Request a Presentation
• Recommendation Letters & Reference

• Resume, Cover Letter, and Interviewing Resources
  • NEW Résumé Resource Page (with updated Résumé Rubric)
  • Cover Letter and Professional Communications
  • Reference & Letters of Recommendation
  • Interviewing Resources
• LinkedIn Resources
  • LinkedIn Learning Activity/Rubric
  • LinkedIn: Building a Great Student Profile
  • LinkedIn for Students

Updated 9/2/21 JV