For Students:

• Help them connect their campus jobs to their academic learning and future career goals.
• Encourage deeper engagement in their work, fostering both personal and professional growth.

For Supervisors:

• Provide resources and a structured approach to guide student employees effectively.Help you support students in making the most of their work experiences, enhancing their career readiness.

Supervisor Information sessions

• 1 hour to learn about the iGROW program and how to implement it with your student(s).

Student-Supervisor Meeting

• Four 15-minute meetings each semester between you and your student to support their reflection and growth.

Streamlined Resources

• We provide materials to help you guide your student employees, making the process more efficient and impactful.

• Supervisor information sessions will be offered in fall and spring semesters. If you cannot attend a scheduled session, you can express interest and we’ll send you information.

• 100% agreed or somewhat agreed that their on-campus role helped them develop communication, teamwork and interpersonal, leadership, creativity and problem-solving, professionalism and productivity, and global perspective skills.
• 78% agreed or somewhat agreed that their on-campus role helped them develop technology skills.
• 94% agreed or somewhat agreed that their supervisor helped them reflect on their CliftonStrengths.
• 100% agreed or somewhat agreed that their supervisor made connections between on-campus roles and life in and out of the classroom, as well as future careers.

Supervisor Participation:

• Who can participate as a supervisor?
  • Virginia Tech faculty and staff who supervise students.
  • Virginia Tech graduate students who are employed as graduate assistants, and who supervise undergraduate students as part of your assistantship.
• As a supervisor, how do I get started?
  • See “how supervisors can participate,” above.
• Does the student have to be in a paid position?
  • No. Supervisors of students may participate in iGROW regardless of whether the student positions are paid or unpaid.

Student Participation:

• Can the supervisees be undergraduate or graduate students?
  • Students who are supervised may be undergraduate or graduate students at Virginia Tech.
• Is there a minimum number of hours per week the student must work?
  • No; there is not a minimum number of hours per week a student must work.
• Does the work have to be in person?
  • The work can be in person, remote, or hybrid.

These questions are meant to help students reflect on what they are learning and how they are applying what they learn. Supervisors will use these questions to encourage discussion in your four meetings per semester with each of the students you supervise.

1. What are you learning (in this job) that is helping you in and out of the classroom?
2. What are you learning in your classes that can apply at work?
3. Can you give me a couple of examples of things you have learned in this job that you think you will use in your chosen career? Consider the professional competencies: Which do you think you are developing at work?
4. How are you using your CliftonStrengths in your this job, and could you be using them more?

• Professional competencies that students can reflect on and work to develop.
• Workshops for supervisors on guiding your students (will be linked here when scheduled).
• Performance evaluaton document (docx to download) to use with students.