For Supervisors

Identify a student. Shape their future.

Benefits to student employees:

• Clearly identify and articulate transferable skills
• Receive a polished career readiness report
• Build resume bullet points from real work experience
• Gain confidence in professional self-presentation

Benefits to your department

• More motivated and professionally engaged student workers
• Further positive connection with your student(s)
• Deeper understanding of the skills required for work at your respective office
• Alignment with K-State's student success and career readiness goals

What’s Required From Supervisors

• Identify/Nominate 1-2 student(s)
• Weekly Check-ins
• Refer to the weekly agenda for supervisors and meet with your student on the topic for each week throughout the 12-week program. The agenda will be sent to supervisors at the start of the program.
• Time commitment
• Allow your student(s) to be able to work on program activities during scheduled work time (30-60 minutes/week).
• Complete the NACE Competencies Post-Assessment
• At the end of the program, complete the NACE competencies post-assessment to help measure student growth.

Your Nomination Makes a Difference

When you nominate a student for the Pathways Program, you're telling them: "Your work here matters, and so does your future." That message is powerful.

The goal is for selected students to feel more valued, more confident, and better prepared to enter the workforce or pursue graduate opportunities.