What is S.E.T.?
The goal of Student Employment Training (S.E.T) is to offer formalized professional development to our Indiana Wesleyan University residential students. Our once a month workshops will focus on "Career Readiness" competencies from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Students will be able to gain experience and knowledge from participating in and attending the S.E.T. Workshops.
Are You Career Ready?
Career Readiness is a foundation from which to demonstrate requisite core competencies that broadly prepare the college educated for success in the workplace and lifelong career management.
For new college graduates, career readiness is key to ensuring successful entrance into the workforce. Career readiness is the foundation upon which a successful career is launched. Career readiness is, quite simply, the new career currency.
For higher education, career readiness provides a framework for addressing career-related goals and outcomes of curricular and extracurricular activities, regardless of the student’s field of study. For employers, career readiness plays an important role in sourcing talent, providing a means of identifying key skills and abilities across all job functions; similarly, career readiness offers employers a framework for developing talent through internship and other experiential education programs.
There are a total of eight Career Readiness Competencies identified by NACE. For the purpose of students at Indiana Wesleyan University, four additional competencies have been added to the list. Scroll through the list below to learn about each competency.
Career & Self Development
Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization.
Equity & Inclusion
Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures. Engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.
Critical Thinking
Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
Communication
Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.
Leadership
Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
Teamwork
Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
Professionalism
Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace.
Technology
Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.
Financial Literacy
Having the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy is the foundation of your relationship with money, and it is a lifelong journey of learning.
IWU Mission & Student Values
Developing students in character, scholarship, and leadership to change the world. Understanding the challenge to follow Christ which compels us to pursue a personal and professional lifestyle of commitment, leadership, service, stewardship, innovation, and diversity.
Clifton Strengths at Work
You Are Unique. You Are Powerful. Be Confident With Who You Are. Understanding how our Strengths can be incorporated in the workplace.
Supervising Student Employees
Setting an example, communicating expectations, evaluating and giving recognition... Giving supervisors the ability to supervise their student workers effectively.
Student Employment Training on Teamwork & Collaboration
The "I Love My Job" Campaign
The purpose of the "I love my JOB" campaign is three fold: (1) To increase a positive mindset of our campus jobs and working at IWU. (2) To drive awareness of our social media platforms, thus, increasing recognition of jobs and internships for student's benefit. (3) To increase retention of students... students are more likely to remain connected to IWU if they have a job where they feel appreciated and maintain a sense of belonging.
The Life Calling and Career team will SURPRISE a student or a group of students at their campus job location. Rewarding them with an "I love my JOB" mug full of candy, we grab a picture of the student with some of the "I love my JOB" signage and "I love my JOB" button and ask them a few questions (i.e. why do you love your IWU job?). We then post their picture to our social media, tagging the student, their campus job, and the university social media.
We have a total of 123 unique campus jobs that have anywhere from 1 - 60 student employees. We would love to see this idea transform our student body but also envision seeing our IWU faculty and staff embrace the "I love my JOB" movement.
Colossians 3:23-24
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving."
