Earn UA Career-Ready Badge

Practice and develop UA Career-Ready Skills by engaging in campus activities or submitting skill-development reflections found on HogSync, the campus student engagement platform powered by CampusGroups.

The campus-wide Career-Ready Badge provides an inventory of students' career readiness and a virtual map of opportunities offered by departments and student organizations to practice and develop 8 UA Career-Ready Skills (adopted from research conducted by national research organizations.)

How Do I Complete the Badges?

Every time you check into a HogSync event tagged with an "OCC" Career-Ready Skill, you're one step closer to completing the Career-Ready Badge.

To Complete:

1. Check into at least 5 HogSync events tagged "OCC + career skill" for each of the 8 UA Career-Ready Skills (40 total)
2. Submit a final reflection of your overall skill practicing and developing experiences that demonstrates your ability to articulate how you have used the eight Career-Ready Skills.

Alternative to event check-ins->

1. Complete class assignments or participate in community events focused on practicing and developing a specific career-ready skill or complete a skill-focused learning project on your own.
2. Submit a career-ready skill reflection form found on HogSync > My Activity > My Surveys/Forms and search by "career."
3. Your reflection will be reviewed and approved if you've answered all questions adequately. (Example answers are provided on the form.)

What Do I Earn?

• LinkedIn badge signaling to employers you are Career Ready
• Completers who also complete the First Destination Survey before graduation will receive a gold graduation cord.

Project Impact:

• Increased student engagement in co-curricular activities
• Shared language campus-wide regarding career readiness skills
• Increased understanding of co-curricular activities relationship to students' individualized post-graduation goals.

How can I help students participate in the UA Career-Ready Badge?

Faculty & Instructors: View the Help Students Participate in the UA Career-Ready Badge Flyer

When you include career-ready projects and assignments in your classes, you're giving students an opportunity to participate in the UA Career-Ready Badge.

1. Familiarize yourself with the career-ready skills and behaviors
2. Identify one career-ready skill that most relates to your project or assignment.
3. Clearly label the project or assignment (i.e. on your syllabus, project or assignment instructions, etc.) as an opportunity to practice and develop the career-ready skill.
4. Encourage your students to submit career-ready skill reflections of their experiences. (Reflection forms made available on HogSync.)
• Career and Self-Development
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Perspective Awareness
• Leadership
• Professionalism
• Teamwork
• Technology

Event Coordinators & RSO Advisors/Officers:

Your role is crucial in this process. When planning events, please tag them with the single UA Career-Ready Skill that is most practiced and developed during the activity.

1. Familiarize yourself with the career-ready skills and behaviors.
2. Assign 1 tag for each event. By tagging events in HogSync, together we are creating a virtual map of student opportunities to practice and develop key, employer-identified career-ready skills.
   Note: Designate only 1 tag for HogSync event tags. HogSync tagging instructions video