Elevate Career Services
Empowering Career Services Professionals
Elevate Workshops are designed to uplift and empower career services professionals across higher education. These interactive sessions provide essential tools and strategies to help participants grow professionally, expand their networks, and stay at the forefront of career development practices.
Through Elevate, attendees will:
- Leverage cutting-edge online tools and resources to enhance student support and streamline career services operations.
- Network with career services faculty and staff from across institutions, building lasting connections and collaborative opportunities.
- Engage in meaningful conversations on national trends, challenges, and innovations within the career development field.
Whether you’re new to career services or a seasoned professional, Elevate Workshops provide a collaborative space for growth, inspiration, and impact.
Fall 2026 Workshops
Date: August 27, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Academic Advisors, and Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategists
Description: As career fair season ramps up, completed Handshake profiles play a critical role in helping students get discovered by employers, receive relevant job and internship recommendations, and prepare for recruiting opportunities. This session will equip career counselors and academic advisors with practical strategies for encouraging profile completion and helping students make the most of Handshake early in the semester. Participants will learn how to guide students in:
- Completing their Handshake profile early
- Uploading a current resume to improve recommendations
- Engaging with Handshake as part of their career planning process
- Preparing for upcoming career fairs and employer events
By reinforcing these habits during the first weeks of the semester, advisors and counselors can help students position themselves for greater success throughout the fall recruiting season.
Date: September 24, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Academic Advisors, and Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategists
Description: Join Jelisa Bass to learn how Big Interview and Big Resume can enhance your career conversations, workshops, and classroom activities. These platforms provide ready-to-use assignments, interview practice tools, resume and cover letter resources, and expert career guidance that help students prepare for internships and employment. Discover how faculty and career professionals can use these resources to scale career readiness support while giving students personalized opportunities to develop and demonstrate professional skills.
Date: October 15, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Career Coaches/Counselors Strategist, Experiential Learning Coordinators
Description: This session provides an overview of Suitable, a platform designed to enhance and evaluate student career readiness. Participants will learn how to use Suitable to measure student development as they engage in experiential and work-based learning activities, track career competency growth, and integrate the tool into their experiential learning courses and opportunities. This session will show faculty and staff how to embed career readiness directly into the academic or co-curricular experience, helping students develop essential skills for their future careers. Time will be provided to workshop ideas and use cases, as well as create an assessment template and activity for future use.
Date: November 12, 2026
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Academic Advisors, and Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategists
Description: Help students uncover opportunities beyond traditional job boards. Join Derek for an introduction to CareerShift, a powerful career search and networking platform available to anyone with an auburn email. CareerShift enables students to search millions of job and internship listings, identify target employers, connect with alumni and professional contacts, organize application materials, and track their career outreach in one place. Learn how this resource can support students in building strategic professional networks, exploring career paths, and taking a proactive approach to securing internships and full-time opportunities.
Join The Collective’s biggest campus-wide event of the year! This year, they are focusing on Every Student. Career learning becomes transformative when it is integrated into the student experience rather than remaining optional. Through thoughtfully defined career learning outcomes and carefully designed milestones, institutions can ensure that every student engages in critical career learning experiences, not just those who choose to participate. Following the conference, participants are invited to attend an ecosystem round table conversation and lunch. This in-person gathering will provide an opportunity to discuss key takeaways, share ideas, and continue conversations sparked during the conference while connecting with colleagues across the network.
Important Registration Information: Your CLC conference registration has already been paid for through Auburn’s campus-wide registration. This Elevate registration serves as your RSVP and ensures you receive conference access information, event updates, and details about the ecosystem round table conversation and in-person lunch on the following day. RSVP Deadline: November 13
Participants can expect:
- Access to all virtual conference sessions through the campus-wide registration
- Timely updates and instructions for joining conference events
- Opportunities to engage with current trends, strategies, and practices in career services
- Connection with colleagues across the Auburn Career Services Network
Suggested Audience: Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategists, Academic Advisors
Have a workshop idea? We’d love to hear it! Email your suggestions to career@auburn.edu.