This is our third year of piloting new and innovative evaluation tools for LifeWorks student workers. Our assessment tool for advanced and pre-professional students is from a company called SkillSurvey. It offers students 360-degree feedback on eight career readiness competencies that employers have identified as the most important skills they look for when hiring new employees. This tool compares a student's own self-assessment with feedback from their supervisor in each of the eight competencies and provides them with a Career Readiness Report and practical strategies to guide the next steps on their journey of personal and professional development (PPD). This year we are also offering a new evaluation tool for our entry and intermediate student employees targeted at students just starting out in their first LifeWorks jobs. This printable evaluation is linked below and all supervisors are welcome to utilize it as a framework for student feedback and growth.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have created a simple evaluation that focuses on providing students with important feedback on their job performance and professional skillsets, but in a format that is more straightforward and scoped for underclassmen in their first LifeWorks jobs. This basic LifeWorks evaluation (link below) is downloadable and can be easily printed to use with however many students you choose. The back page has some optional questions to support students' reflection, based on the Iowa GROW framework for evaluating students’ work experience.
Firstly, many LifeWorks supervisors have told us that they would like for us to provide them with a simple, intuitive, and consistent tool they can use to give developmentally-focused performance feedback to their LifeWorks students. Secondly, even though most Berry students have experienced incredible PPD during their time at Berry, many students struggle to understand and communicate the value of their LifeWorks experiences outside of the Berry bubble (e.g., prospective employers, graduate schools, etc).
We are asking all supervisors to meet with their student workers to debrief the evaluation and help students to identify at least two goals to guide their personal and professional development.
We are asking supervisors to choose either fall or spring to evaluate their students. We will open the evaluations in early November.
We are asking supervisors to choose either fall or spring to evaluate their students. We will open the evaluations in early November.