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.
Spring 2026 Workshops
Date: March 19, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategist
Description: In this interactive, hands-on session, participants will explore Handshake from the student perspective to better understand how students discover opportunities, connect with employers, and engage with career services. Attendees will sign in using a student view and navigate key features including appointment scheduling, event and career fair registration, resource access, and employer networking tools.
By experiencing the platform firsthand, faculty, staff, and career professionals will gain practical insight into the student journey and learn how to more effectively guide and support students in using Handshake to achieve their career goals. Please bring your laptop to participate fully in this guided exploration.
Date: April 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Staff, Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategist
Description: Whether you’re a long-time Handshake user or just getting started, join this session to see highlights the latest and upcoming enhancements designed to elevate your impact and streamline your daily work. Discover new tools that make it easier to support students, and gain meaningful insights from your data. From time-saving workflow improvements to powerful new features and integrations, these updates help you get more value from Handshake and enhance the career services experience for everyone you serve.
Date & Time: TBD
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategist
Description: Big Interview is a dynamic tool that enables students to practice and improve their interview skills. This session will introduce faculty and staff to the platform, explaining how students can use it to prepare for interviews with personalized mock interview questions and feedback. Faculty will also learn how to integrate Big Interview into their coursework to help students hone their interview skills. Time will be provided to brainstorm use cases and/or develop an assignment.
Date & Time: TBD
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.
Have a workshop idea? We’d love to hear it! Email your suggestions to career@auburn.edu.