Welcome to the Design Space
This collection of resources is designed for UB faculty and staff to easily implement career preparation within the academic curriculum or on-campus job and internship work. These include on-demand learning, lesson outlines, and recommended assignments to reinforce student learning outcomes, plus tools, templates, and blog resources that can be shared with students to offer opportunities for self-guided career design.
Assigning career readiness work as part of the public health curriculum.
“Career core competencies fit really naturally into my coursework. Students learn how to apply course theories to their future work, and how to talk about that knowledge in an interview. In teaching, we care about transparency—and these resources underscore why we’re learning what we’re learning.”
- Jessica Kruger, PhD, MCHES
Learn why Jessica embeds career readiness directly into her curriculum >>
This on-demand learning series is designed to connect classroom or on-campus job learning to the working world. These 10-15 minute online webinars cover a variety of career readiness topics with an outline and activities/action steps and can be integrated directly into your curriculum or work-study assignments.
The goal for the on-demand learning
These webinars will help students:
- Get prepared for the working-world
- Gain knowledge about career interests
- Identify their skills and career competencies
- Provide easy access to career resources and tools
- Build confidence in themselves
How to use on-demand learning
UB Faculty and staff can implement career on-demand learning in a few different ways:
- Faculty can use the webinars as assignments in their classes on UBLearns
- Students can complete webinars on their own to practice the topic associated with each topic
- Learning can be executed in classrooms or skillshops by the Career Design Center staff
This curated library of webinars covering a variety of career readiness topics can be embedded directly into your curriculum.
Career communities
Video Length: 10 minutes
The Career Design Center created a way for students to explore their interests, no matter their major, supported by a network of community members sharing advice, inspiration, motivation and ideas for their career journey.
Six different Career Communities students can join in Bullseye powered by Handshake.
- Arts, Design, Entertainment + Communications 🎨
- Data, Analytics, Technology + Engineering ⚙️
- Government, Law, International Affairs + Policy ⚖️\
- Healthcare, Public Health, Life + Lab Sciences 💙
- Management, Sales, Consulting + Finance 📈
- Nonprofit, Education + Social Impact 🤲
Recommended Next Steps
Career readiness
Video Length: 9 minutes
- Reasons why the career readiness competencies are important
- Elements of a STAR story
- Technology tools to assist in the assessment of one's use of the competencies in answering interview questions
- Overview of the eight career readiness competencies
- Sample behaviors for each career readiness competency
Recommended Next Steps
Making professional friends
Video Length: 7 minutes
- The three P's to finding a job/internship
- Describing networking and why it is important
- Questions for an informational conversation targeted to a specific career community
- Resources to find and reach out to a professional
- Ways to start a conversation with a stranger
- Describing the impact of completing an informational conversation
- Items to complete during an informational conversation
Recommended Next Steps
How to build your professional network as an international student?
All about resumes
Video Length: 16 minutes
This webinar will walk you through different aspects of a resume, like:
- Learning the differences between a resume and curriculum vitae
- Steps to take when starting to write a resume
- What to put on a resume
- How to write a strong bullet point statement
- Tips for using Resume Automated Tracking Systems
- Items to include on a reference page
Recommended Next Steps
Online profiles + professional branding
- Importance of completing Handshake profile
- Ways to have an established LinkedIn profile
- Resources to find and reach out to a professional
- Ways to demonstrate one's professional reputation
- Impact of completing an informational conversation
Recommended Next Steps
Writing cover letters
Video Length: 14 minutes
- Purpose of a cover letter
- Tips when writing a cover letter
- Sections of a cover letter
- Types of cover letters
- Purpose of each of the three paragraphs in a cover letter
Recommended Next Steps
Job + internship search strategies
Video Length: 12 minutes
- Three Ps of job/internship searching approach
- How to target employers in a job/internship search
- What networking is and why it is important
- Technology tools that can assist in one's job/internship search
Recommended Next Steps
Job Search Strategies for International Students
How the hiring process works in the U.S.
Interviewing skills
Video Length: 11 minutes
- Describing what an interview is
- Ways to prepare for an interview
- Review the different types of interviews
- Review the types of interview questions
- Things to do before, during, and after an interview
- Resources to help prepare for an interview
Recommended Next Steps
Job offers + salary negotiations
Video Length: 15 minutes
- Things to consider when evaluating a job offer
- What to do before accepting and to accept a job offer
- How to decline a job offer
- Elements of a job offer that are negotiable and non-negotiable
- Components of the DEALS negotiation method
- Tips for managing multiple job offers
Recommended Next Steps
Add these to your courses
You can embed any of these on-demand learning resources into your own courses! Enroll in UBLearns to start.