Gustavus Faculty/Staff

Career Development is eager to partner 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.

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Career and Vocation Champions Program

Gustavus Career and Vocation Champions is a campus wide program designed to equip faculty and staff to assist students with career and vocation questions or decision making. We understand many faculty and staff are currently doing this work and having these conversations already - we want to provide the background, resources, and tools, so that you can be prepared and confident while assisting students.

In this training, you will learn valuable helping skills and how best to make referrals to available resources. In addition, you will receive resources you can use to answer career and vocation related questions. We are also excited to hear from you how or what you are doing to assist our students with career readiness, vocation, and professionalism. This program and training is open to any Gustavus faculty or staff member. Fill out this form to be notified of the next in person training or click here to access more information and a virtual version of the training. Contact Jill VanOsdol '10 for more information at jvanosdo@gustavus.edu.

FTS/Faculty Advisors

Here is a career conversation guide for your meetings with advisees. 

Recommend to students:

• • Self-assessments:
    • 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.
  • Our Peer Career Advisors for students needing assistance on résumés and cover letters.
  • Industry specific groups and individuals to follow on social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) for career knowledge and exploration.
  • 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
  • Handshake for knowing upcoming career events and job and internship opportunities for Gusties.
  • 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 alphabetically: 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

• How to Write Recommendation Letters & Reference

• Resume, Cover Letter, and Interviewing Resources
  • Résumé Resources
  • Cover Letter and Professional Communications
  • Reference & Letters of Recommendation
  • Interviewing Resources
• LinkedIn Resources
  • LinkedIn Learning Activity/Rubric
  • LinkedIn Profile Worksheet

Updated 8/1/22 JV