Partnering with the Career Center as a Career Collaborator gives you the tools and support to weave career readiness into work you're already doing—your courses, advising, and student programming—without adding to your plate. In return, you get priority access to classroom engagement resources like career presentations and employer connections, customized support tailored to your courses or programs, exclusive invitations to faculty and staff trainings, and funding through the Venture Fund to launch your own career-related initiatives. You’ll be recognized as a campus leader in student success through a digital badge for your email signature or faculty profile, all while helping students connect their academic experience to real-world career pathways. It's a high-impact way to make a lasting difference in students' futures while strengthening your own teaching, advising, and professional growth.
Would you like the Career Center to present on a career-related topic in your course or student group? Presentations can be requested by faculty, staff and student organization leaders. Presentations typically range between 45-60 minutes in length, depending on the topic. Career Center availability is limited each semester, so please follow the guidelines below when requesting a presentation.
Incorporating a career assignment into your course or student group is a wonderful way to support your students' career development. Utilizing the Career Brand Toolkit modules, students can work through a module as an assignment for your course/student group, and upload their certificate of completion for easy grading in Canvas. You can also separately request a Big Interview Assignment, which will help students practice their virtual interviewing skills and receive AI feedback.
Institutions often use Coursera to support several goals at once: enhancing course content with specifically curated modules, offering co‑curricular learning tied to career readiness, and providing scalable professional development for faculty, staff, and alumni. Courses are both flexible and available on demand, allowing you to integrate specific learning without needing to build everything from scratch.
Group Internships let students gain hands-on experience through real projects with real employers. In these programs, students collaborate in a small group to solve a real organization problem, helping you build your career experience and setting yourself apart in the job market.
This training program delivers expert‑led strategies, tools, and nation-wide best practices that seamlessly weave career development into teaching, advising, and co‑curricular experiences. By cultivating a shared language across campus, we equip collaborators to bridge classroom and co-curricular learning with real‑world application, elevate collaborators’ own professional growth, and advance UNC Charlotte’s mission to ensure every Niner is prepared to thrive in a purposeful career once they graduate.
The Career Integration Academy is a faculty development program designed to help instructors embed career readiness into their courses in meaningful and discipline-aligned ways. Rooted in research from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), as well as other workforce studies, this Academy provides faculty with practical strategies to bridge the gap between academic learning and workplace expectations.
This training offers a comprehensive approach to enhancing academic programs, drawing on a wealth of data accumulated over the past decade.This 15-30 minute session engages departmental leadership and faculty in dynamic discussions, presenting actionable report takeaways and providing key recommendations tailored to each academic program. This holistic approach empowers institutions to align their goals with student success, fostering a dynamic educational environment that meets the evolving needs of both students and industry stakeholders.
To assist academic departments in their assessment of valuable career skills and Return on Investment (ROI) of students pursuing their degree program, the Career Center has developed a second training program for all faculty and departments. This 3-hour training is designed to empower educators to align academic offerings with the evolving demands of the workforce while fostering students' sense of purpose. To request this training, it is essential that a faculty/department has already completed Departmental Training I: Program Data Discovery.
Explore micro-credentials through Coursera, which are available for UNC Charlotte students, faculty, and staff. Micro-credentials offer a flexible, focused way to gain in-demand skills and demonstrate professional growth in today’s rapidly evolving job market. Platforms like Coursera make high-quality learning accessible by connecting users with courses and certifications from top universities and companies around the world. Whether you're looking to upskill, pivot careers, or deepen expertise in a specific area, micro-credentials provide a practical, affordable path to lifelong learning and career advancement.
Discover insights into purposeful work through curated research articles. Learn about strategies to help students find purpose and meaning in their work and unlock more fulfilling career paths!
The Career Center hosts the Career Collaborative Virtual Learning Series, featuring topics that help faculty and staff support students’ career development while also enhancing their own professional growth. Missed a session? You can now access recordings of past trainings in the archive!