Hire U at USG is a career readiness initiative powered by Suitable. The Suitable app is a mobile-first student engagement and success software, designed to help universities increase student participation outside the classroom and track and assess experiential learning. If you would like to have administrative access to Suitable to add events, download event SmartCodes, and review enrolled student participation in events, please email USG-HireU@umd.edu.
To get started as a Hire U at USG administrative user, you can begin with the Suitable Basics listed below:Suitable Basics
- Request a Suitable contributer account for your UMD email by emailing USG-HireU@umd.edu
- Get started by logging in to Suitable at https://www.suitable.co/ - your login in your UMD account
- Navigating the Dashboard
- How to create an event in Suitable - we limit all events and activities to two career competencies
- Copying activities
- Pulling activity completion reports
More tutorials are available on the Suitable Support website!
LOG IN AS A TEST STUDENT
You are welcome to download the Hire U App powered by Suitable to better understand how students engage with this app. Below are test student credentials, so you can log in as a student and check it out. Staff, faculty, and administrators do not have access to their dashboard on the mobile app - that is only for students.
EVENTS IN HIRE U
All campus-wide events at USG can be added to Suitable for students to get points in Hire U for participating. Events sponsored by USG Student Affairs & Career Readiness should follow this checklist to adhere to our standards for data collection and assessment of student learning outcomes:
CAREER READINESS AT USG SLIDES
EVENT DATA COLLECTION INFOGRAPHIC
MEETING WITH STUDENTS
Every meeting with a student should include an discussion with that student about their status in Hire U. Use the student meeting checklist link below to prepare for your student meeting and have suggested next steps for your student to help them better understand this campus-wide career readiness initiative and the benefits to them!
Why students need to log in to Hire U powered by Suitable:
- See all the upcoming events on campus
- Learn how to add career readiness skills to their degree
- Events in Hire U have registration links and Zoom links for easily accessibility for students
- Attendance at events and completion of tasks are recorded in the Hire U Career Competency Portfolio
Why students need to complete the START HERE ACHIEVEMENT in Hire U:
- The self-assessment gives students a baseline for their skill levels and helps them to better understand what the career competencies are
- Students can choose events to attend based on their individual competency development needs
- Students will get customized notifications from the Hire U App based on the competencies they chose to focus on
- We can customize our student engagement opportunities around our student body competency development needs
Why students should complete COMPETENCY ACHIEVEMENTS in Hire U:
- Students who do not complete competency achievements in Hire U are missing out on paid student engagement opportunities, like Hire U Peer Leaders
- Each competency achievement reflection helps students practice articulating their competency development
- Students need to participate in Hire U to join the Hire U at USG Honor Society - which has no GPA requirement
- Achievements populate a student's Career Competency Portfolio that can be shared with employers, faculty, and graduate programs
ASSESSING STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Workshops and events in Suitable (Level 2 and above) should assess student learning outcomes prior to ending the events.
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES SURVEY STANDARDS
Video: Writing Measurable Student Learning Outcomes
Additional Resources:
USG Competencies + Outcomes Slides
SLO Examples for USG Financial Literacy Programming
Samples Rubrics for Direct Student Learning Outcome Assessment
Assessing Student Learning Outcomes
Glossary of Student Affairs Data Terms
DE& I RESOURCES
Video: Universal Design for Learning
Resource: Universal Design for Learning Graphic Organizer
other staff resources
HIRE U STUDENT ORIENTATION SLIDES