Faculty & Staff Resource: Course Tools, Assignments & Integration Support
Deepen your practice by intentionally linking learning experiences to career readiness. This resource highlights ways to integrate career-focused concepts and reflection into courses and programs, collaborate on meaningful career-related assignments, partner with C3 to support student exploration, and incorporate experiential learning opportunities that connect academics to future careers.
Experiential learning helps students apply what they are learning in the classroom to real-world settings while building career readiness competencies.
Gator Experience Record
The Gator Experience Record (GER) is the University of Florida’s official comprehensive learner record, capturing the full scope of a student’s experience across curricular and co-curricular engagement. Faculty and staff support the verification and validation process that ensures the Gator Experience Record documents are official, UF-recognized experiences.
Career Treks
Career Treks introduce students to employers and industries through site visits and structured exposure experiences. These programs help students explore career environments and learn directly from professionals in the field.
University Recognized Internship (URI)
The University Recognized Internship (URI) program formally acknowledges student-reported internship experiences completed outside of coursework. Through a structured reflection and verification process, students can have these experiences recognized and included on their Gator Experience Record (GER), UF’s co-curricular transcript. Faculty and staff can encourage students to utilize the URI to help them articulate what they learned and strengthen connections between their academic experience and professional development.
Career Showcase
Career Showcase connects students with employers from a wide range of industries through one of UF’s largest campus recruiting events. Faculty and staff can encourage students to attend or participate in Career Showcase Tours to build confidence in engaging with employers.
Make skills visible within coursework
Students often complete complex academic work without recognizing the transferable skills they are developing. Naming these skills helps students better understand the value of their academic experiences.
Ways to do this include:
- Highlighting skills connected to assignments or projects
- connecting course learning outcomes to workplace-relevant competencies
- encouraging short reflection after major coursework milestones
Support available:
- Canvas-ready reflection activities available through the Canvas Learning Commons
- Consultation with C3 on aligning assignments with career readiness language
Help students translate academic experiences into professional language
Students benefit from structured opportunities to explain coursework in ways they can use beyond the classroom.
Translation activities help students:
- Describe class projects on resumes
- Prepare for interviews
- Articulate research experiences
- Communicate strengths to graduate programs or employers
Support available:
- Quinncia: Browse and select pre-made assignments that provide students with AI-powered resume feedback, mock interview prep, and LinkedIn profile support.