CPD Career Readiness Toolkit

Helping faculty, staff, and student leaders guide students to career success

Career conversations can happen anywhere: the classroom, during a student organization meeting, customized workshops for a specific group of students, and beyond. Career and Professional Development is excited to partner with you as you integrate career activities and resources for your students.

The CPD Career Readiness Toolkit offers comprehensive resources that you can utilize to expand student access to career related content. Recognizing the many places that Hokies are learning about career related topics, we are excited to collaborate with Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and student leaders to provide ready-to-facilitate activities and engaging interactive modules that can be embedded into a Canvas course.

Thank you for investing your time and building career readiness with your students!

About Toolkit resources and how you can use them:

Interactive Modules

Our interactive modules deliver career information in small, easily digestible segments, allowing you to select content that is most relevant for your students. To give your students access to the modules, you load a zip file into your existing Canvas course. All modules come with upload instructions and multiple-choice questions (with feedback for the answer choices) or reflective prompts that can be loaded into your Canvas course to reinforce learning.

Career Related Activities for Classes, Workshops, or Group Meetings

Our library of career related activities features activities for a wide range of career needs and topics. Each activity comes with a facilitator guide that walks you through the goal of the activity, talking points for introducing the topic, instructions to facilitate the activity, and a couple of debrief questions. We also provide a digital copy of any handouts that you need for the activity. These activities are ready to implement as is, or you can make strategic adjustments to speak to niche information for your specific student population.

What to Expect from Interactive Modules:

Resources by Career Topic:

Contact for additional questions about the CPD Career Readiness Toolkit:

Heidi Gilbert, Career Education Specialist / Career Advisor
Career and Professional Development
hlgilbert@vt.edu