Key Questions

The four questions supervisors ask to facilitate conversations with student employees include: 

• How is this job fitting in with your academics?
• What are you learning here at work that is helping you in your academics?
• What are you learning in your coursework that you can apply here at work?
• What are examples of things you are learning here at work or skills you are developing that can be applied to your anticipated career?

Deadlines

• Supervisors start the process by describing the program to students and holding two conversations by December.
• In the second semester, supervisors hold an additional two conversations.
• Supervisors also notify students through email or in person that they will receive an OSU GROW survey by the end of April.

Goals

• Helping students make meaningful connections between what they’re learning in the classroom and what they’re learning during employment
• Helping students make a connection between their job and their future career
• Helping students recognize the importance of reflection and how to facilitate that process
• This program is developed from the Iowa GROW curriculum.