WIL student support module: Career identity

Overview

In this two-part module, students will reflect on four critical areas of career development:

  • their values and needs
  • their skills
  • how they’d like to engage with their field of work
  • potential impacts they hope to have in their career

Students will be able to identify and articulate the contributions they will bring to their WIL experience, and they will be able to create a career identity statement to use in several career contexts. Additionally, these reflections will support students in planning for the WIL experience career growth.

Details

  • Time estimate: 30-60 minutes (excluding assignment)
  • When to use: Before WIL experience, suggested in the early weeks of the course
  • Optional assignment: Creating your career identity statement and career profile (approximately 25-45 minutes) 

What's inside?

  • Career Identity [TOC folder]
    • [Content page] Values, needs, and the impact you want to have in your career
    • [Content page] Your skills and how'd you like to use them
    • Instructor Only [folder – hidden from students]
      • [Content page] Assignment: Creating Your Career Identity Statement and Career Profile
      • [Word document] Career Identity Assignment Description and Feedback Guide

How to import into LEARN

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Creative Commons license

This content from the Centre for Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Co-operative and Experiential Education, and the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ is licensed under a . You’re welcome to share and adapt the material for non-commercial use, with proper credit and under the same license. For other uses, contact centreforwil@uwaterloo.ca.