Equipping supervisors with the tools to empower working learners with essential skills today, ensuring their lasting success in the careers of tomorrow.
UCF Work+ is an innovative, university-driven initiative designed to bridge the gap between academic learning and hands-on, career-focused work experience. It equips supervisors of student employees with the tools and resources to create enriching, career-oriented opportunities for their students.
Work+ is specifically aimed at supervisors of working learners—students who are balancing academic responsibilities with part-time employment at UCF. Through the Work+ framework, supervisors play a pivotal role in helping students connect their day-to-day tasks with their broader career goals, ensuring that their student employment experiences become more than just jobs. Instead, these experiences transform into valuable opportunities for professional growth and development.
Work+ Resources for Supervisors
Below, you will find resources organized by category to support the development of your working learners.
Work+ Supervisor Foundations – Coming Soon!
As the first step in the Work+ Supervisor Learning Pathway, the Work+ Supervisor Foundations course in UCF Workday is designed to equip supervisors of working learners with the tools, strategies, and support needed to foster career readiness on-the-job. The learning pathway will launch Monday, August 4, 2025.
Questions? Contact ucfworkplus@ucf.edu.
Knight’s Career Quest
Designed for your working learners, Knight’s Career Quest is a self-paced course that introduces students to the eight NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) career readiness competencies—skills employers value most. Share this professional development resource with your working learners today!
Work+ Supervisor Foundations – Resource Preview
Resource Description: Supervisors can use this resource to assess and enhance NACE competencies in their supervisory role through actionable ideas.
Resource Description: This onboarding resource provides strategies and actionable steps to support working learners.
Resource Description: This resource summarizes the eight NACE career readiness core competencies.
Resource Description: This resource helps Work+ Supervisors create an actionable plan for integrating mentoring and NACE competencies into the working learner experience.
Job Posting Resource
Resource Description: This resource will provide an example of a job description before, and after, it was further aligned with the NACE career competencies.
Working Learner Recognition Resource
Resource Instructions: Share pages 2 and 3 of the document with your working learners to help understand their preferences for recognition and appreciation, ensuring it aligns with their specific accomplishments and is timely and meaningful.
NACE Career Readiness Mentoring Tools
NACE Conversation Starters and Discussion Topics
The Work+ Supervisor Hub offers conversation starters and discussion topics to guide your mentoring of working learners on the eight NACE Career Readiness Competencies:
- Career and Self-Development
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Leadership
- Perspective Awareness
- Professionalism
- Teamwork
- Technology