Faculty and Staff Resources
Our team supports faculty with student success initiatives that prepare students for a career. Our goal is to aid your work in enhancing career discussions, support career readiness in your curriculum, and help to prepare students for success in the workforce. Learn more about our tools and resources that can help you connect your students to their future careers.
Our Focus Areas
Career Everywhere
We are committed to collaborating with faculty, staff, and departments everywhere across the UNLV campus to prepare and support career-ready students and graduates. Providing excellent and inclusive career education is a community effort. We appreciate your partnership in ensuring that our students and alumni can fulfill their personal and professional goals.
Career Mobility
Career Mobility is the combination of career pathway preparation, career satisfaction, and economic mobility (Career Leadership Collective, NACMS, 2021). The goal of the career readiness initiatives at UNLV is to support the career mobility of students through career pathway preparation. This framework represents the activities all students will engage in and the competencies they will develop while a student at UNLV.
According to the National Alumni Career Mobility Survey, these are the six high-impact career mobility practices:
- Understanding career opportunities
- Creating a career plan
- Networking with employers
- Having an internship related to their current career
- Receiving helpful career advice (in general, from faculty or employers)
- Learning critical thinking
By engaging with UNLV Career Services to facilitate these high-impact career mobility practices in the classroom and beyond, faculty can help set students up for a lifetime of career satisfaction and success!
Source: The Career Leadership Collective. (2021). Career Mobility Meets Covid-19, Equity, and ROI: NACM 2020 Annual Report. Retrieved from NACM 2020 Annual Report.
Rebel Career Champions Network
Rebel Career Champions Network (RCCN) is a diverse team of administrative and academic faculty dedicated to creating a roadmap for comprehensive career education that reaches and supports students throughout their academic journey. The roadmap will provide a model for developing contemporary co-curricular readiness and curricular career preparation for our students.
For more information about joining or engaging with the network, please email rccn@unlv.edu.
Ways to Support Your Students
We are committed to collaborating with faculty, staff, and departments across campus to support your efforts to develop career-ready students and alumni. Listed below are a few ways you can support your students. To learn more, visit the Career Launch Faculty & Staff page.
We provide faculty consultations to help you do the following:
- Integrate career readiness into your courses
- Support career-related assignments
- Partner on programs with academic areas
- Provide access to career and workforce-related content, talking points for your classes, and supplemental resources.
To request a consultation, email careerworkforce@unlv.edu.
We provide interactive, up-to-date career and professional development skills workshops that focus on best practices and learning outcomes for career readiness. We can also provide special presentations from industry experts.
To view the workshop topics we offer and schedule a workshop for your student, complete our workshop request form.
The Career Readiness & Life Design program allows students to earn a digital badge in six competency areas that employers value. These competency areas are as follows:
- Communication
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Professionalism
- Cultural Intelligence
- Leadership
Faculty can encourage students to complete the competencies by incorporating career readiness activities into their courses and assignments.
Encourage students to consider internship opportunities. Internships provide students with professional learning experiences that offer them meaningful, practical work that’s related to their field of study or career interest. Students participating in internships have the opportunity for career exploration and development and to learn new skills. Verified internship opportunities are found on the student website Handshake.
Direct your students to our Student and Alumni Resources page for more information.
Student employment is a learning experience that complements a student’s academic and career goals. Student employees benefit from the additional financial resources and gain valuable work experience, and UNLV benefits by meeting staffing needs to perform day-to-day operations.
Staff can request a Handshake account to recruit students for on-campus employment. An account also gives access to the "student view" of Handshake, helping to better understand the student experience and how to promote opportunities to targeted audiences best. Please contact us at careerservices@unlv.edu.
Are you working with a student who could use more career support? Career Services offers one-on-one career advising including resume and cover letter reviews, interview preparation, job search support, life design, and more. Use our student referral form to connect a student with our team.
If you’re working with a student from the Lee Business School, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering, or Harrah College of Hospitality, know that these units have specialized career centers or services available for students who fall into these colleges. You may fill out the student referral form and we will pass the information along to the respective centers. Alternatively, you can reach out to them directly by visiting their website or reaching out to them:
If you are interested in requesting a box or more of career handbooks for your department or office, please fill out the our career handbook request form to have Career Services coordinate a delivery for you and your team. If you have any questions, please contact careerservices@unlv.edu.
Have a career or professional development event coming up and want to broaden your audience? Let’s add it to Handshake. Please fill out the career/professional development event form about your career or professional development event to Handshake to share out with the UNLV student community. We’d love to promote your event and increase attendance! If you have any questions, please contact careerservices@unlv.edu.
Services and Opportunities for Faculty/Staff
Faculty/Staff Life Design Consultation
Meet with one of our trained Life Design facilitators to discuss your own career development needs, get support with adding Life Design to your curriculum, or schedule a workshop for your team or class.
Join the UNLV Rebel Career Champions Network (RCCN)
The RCCN is dedicated to providing intentional and scalable career development resources by leveraging the relationships between faculty, staff, administrators, and student leaders. It aims to support student success by integrating the “Career Everywhere” initiative, which focuses on fostering a campus culture where career readiness is a shared goal, and students are equipped with the skills and knowledge to thrive in their chosen professions.
The RCCN, composed of a network of trained Career Champions, offers guidance to elevate student experiences and encourage successful transitions into post-secondary careers. If you have any questions, contact rccn@unlv.edu.