WIL student support module: Leveraging your WIL experience in your career

Overview

This module will have students engage in deep reflection, reflecting on their experience, the application of their knowledge and skillsets, the contributions and achievements they made during the experience and how the experience informs the next steps in their career. Activities and optional assignments support them in articulating their experience in résumés, cover letters and interviews, as well as creating a concrete post-course career plan.

Details

  • Time estimate: approximately 2 hours
  • When to use: After the WIL experience, suggested a week or two after the experience
  • Optional assignment: Creating a personal action plan (30-60 minutes)

What's inside?

  • Leveraging Your WIL Experience [TOC folder]
    • [Content page] Leveraging Your WIL Experience
    • [Content page] Critically Reflecting on Your Experience
    • [Content page] Articulating Outcomes
    • Instructor Only [folder – hidden from students]
      • [Content page] Assignment: Creating Your Personal Action Plan
      • [Word document] Creating Your Personal Action Plan Assignment Description and Feedback Guide

How to import into LEARN

This content is available as a Brightspace package that you can upload into your course. For support with this process, please see Brightspace’s import course content.

Creative Commons license

This content from the Centre for Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Centre for Career Development, and the University of Waterloo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 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.

This module incorporates subject matter expertise around career development learning from the Centre for Career Development (CCD), alongside WIL pedagogical expertise from the Centre for WIL. For more information or support related to career development learning please contact careers@uwaterloo.ca.