Training & Development
Training is essential to ensuring that our students are not only able to get hired on successfully with a department, but function in their roles as productive workers afterward.
RAISE
RAISE (Reflection and Advancement in Integrated Student Employment) is a program at UTD that fosters meaningful connections between students’ academic learning, student employment experience, and professional development. Through brief, structured conversations, student employees and supervisors collaborate to highlight transferable skills that enhance both classroom and workplace success.
Resources
Explore our tools and resources to help guide your RAISE conversations, including conversation templates, reflection prompts, and quick start guides:
- Starting with RAISE
- Facilitating RAISE Conversations
- RAISE Email Templates
- RAISE Notes Template
- RAISE Quick Start Guide
- PDF – RAISE Supervisor Training
- RAISE Student Overview
Get Started
Contact us at studentemployment@utdallas.edu to learn how RAISE can benefit your team and get started with the program!
STELLAR
STELLAR (Student Training for Excellence in Leadership, Learning, and Results) is a career readiness and leadership development program for student employees. STELLAR provides supervisors the opportunity to improve job performance and satisfaction in student employees and elevate the competitiveness of on-campus jobs. Ready to get started?
Program Overview
- STELLAR (Student Training for Excellence in Leadership, Learning, and Results) is a career readiness and leadership development program for student employees
- Paid professional development as part of work hours or as paid additional time
- Self-paced, structured career readiness modules and career development events
- Designed to help student employees build essential skills for professional success
- Customizable by supervisor preference—select up to 24 hours of professional development content
Resources
Explore these links to learn more about how the STELLAR model as well as how to discuss and implement with student employees:
Get Started
Ready to launch your Student Employee experience to new heights? Complete the Enrollment Form today!
Unsure how to work around departmental constraints yet interested in STELLAR? Schedule a chat with our team now.
Professional Development
The university offers a handful of systems for self-guided training. We highly encourage all faculty, staff, and students to use these tools to continue developing personally and professionally.
University Career Center Resources & Tools
Need a helping hand with finding an internship or job? Check out these resources and tools available to all UT Dallas student and alumni! We provide a library of information for various aspects of taking the next steps in your career. From the highly-detailed career guides in our Career Resource Library to the first-gen tools we provide access for, the University Career Center is proud to be able to offer the most up-to-date in employment trends and best practices.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning, is now available to all current UT Dallas faculty, staff and students. This service is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. With over 12,000 courses and an average of 60 courses added per month, there is something for everyone. Learn more on the Eugene McDermott Library website.
Performance Conversations
Performance conversations are essential for supervisors to share meaningful feedback with student employees to support their professional development. These discussions offer a chance to recognize student employees’ contributions, address areas for growth, and connect their job experiences to future career goals. Supervisors should lead performance conversations with their student employees at the end of each semester or each academic year to ensure students receive the guidance and support they need to succeed.
Check out our Student Employee Performance Evaluation Guide for more information!
Compliance Training
The Student Employment Office works with Institutional Compliance to ensure all student employees complete their Compliance Training as required for all university employees.
Students are invited to complete this training by the Office of Institutional Compliance directly and departments are welcome to request additional trainings for their students as deemed necessary or desired for their particular role.