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 2025 Workshops
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
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.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 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.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Career Coaches/Counselors/Strategist
Description: Join us for an engaging session designed to introduce Auburn University faculty and staff to Forage, a free online platform offering over 300 job simulations from 125+ leading employers across a wide range of industries. These simulations provide students with a realistic preview of workplace tasks and expectations, helping them build confidence, gain career clarity, and stand out in internship and job applications.
In this training, you will:
- Discover how Forage’s self-paced job simulations mirror real-world tasks across various roles and companies.
- Learn how students can earn certificates to showcase on their resumes and LinkedIn profiles.
- Explore ways to integrate Forage into your advising, teaching, or programming to support career development.
- Understand how Forage connects students with early talent recruiters and unlocks new opportunities.
Whether you’re looking to enhance classroom engagement, support experiential learning, or provide career guidance, this session will equip you with practical tools to leverage Forage in your work with students.
Conference: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Virtual
Post Conference Networking and Sharing Ideas: 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, All Career Services
Description: For those of you interested in attending the Career Leadership Collective’s Virtual Conference on Nov. 13th, you may now register individually under the Auburn University Campus-Wide ticket. Please visit the CLC registration page and individually register using the “Previously Paid” option. This will ensure your access to the conference. Please reach out if you have any additional questions.
More information at be found at https://www.careerleadershipcollective.com/virtual-conference
Access Information to Come
After the virtual conference join your colleagues from across campus for networking and the sharing of ideas. Session topics will be marked at tables to allow you to join in conversations and workshop ideas that are top of mind. Refreshments will be provided.
Time: 8:45 AM – 4 PM
Location: Virtual
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, All Career Services
Description: NACE’s 2025 Competency Symposium will bring together experts in skill and competency development to present successful strategies and insights to shape, recruit, and hire a career-ready workforce. Event information can be accessed here.
Individual Members and Non-members must register on their own.
Time: 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, All Career Services
Description: Join us for a Post-Conference Networking Session! Following the virtual conference, gather in person with colleagues from across campus for a networking and idea-sharing event. Whether you’re continuing a discussion or starting a new one, this is a chance to connect, collaborate, and expand on insights from the conference.
Refreshments will be provided.
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 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.
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: 136 Foy Hall
Target Audience: Faculty, Career Coaches, Staff
Description: Using Collections to Help Students find Jobs and Internships
This hands-on session will show you how to use Handshake’s Collections feature to curate job and internship opportunities from your partner employers into one easy-to-share resource for your students. Career services staff will learn step-by-step how to build a collection tailored to their college. Please bring a list of your partner employers that includes: full employer name, website link, phone number, and address. Support will also be available to invite employers not yet on Handshake to join the platform and post opportunities, so they can be included in your collection.
Have a workshop idea? We’d love to hear it! Email your suggestions to career@auburn.edu.