Training & Supervising Today’s Student Workers – On-Demand Training

Build Career-Ready & Confident Student Employees 

Too often, student worker training is rushed, repetitive, or overly focused on policies instead of real-world skills. Many student employees feel underprepared when they’re asked to handle difficult situations, enforce policies, or work with peers in a professional setting, especially because staff and administrators rely on them to keep things running smoothly.

On the flip side, staff tasked with training student workers often experience burnout from running multiple sessions on similar topics with little time or resources to innovate. Training can feel frustrating when students don’t retain key information, overwhelming when balancing multiple training needs, and disjointed when there’s no consistency in how different departments onboard student workers.

Join us as our presenter will take a fresh approach to student worker development by streamlining training across departments, reducing redundancy, and making sessions more engaging through hands-on learning rather than policy overload. She’ll explore training that focuses on transferable skills and creating a learning environment where student workers can grow with confidence, so you can create more effective development opportunities that help students build confidence and apply what they learn in real situations.

By combining practical tools with current trends in student development and workplace learning, this session will offer you realistic strategies you can immediately implement to improve both the effectiveness of student worker training and the overall student employment experience.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you: 

• Identify the most common workplace skill gaps among student workers and adjust training to focus on areas such as professional communication, problem-solving, and accountability.
• Use short, targeted training to reinforce key expectations rather than relying on a single large onboarding session.
• Create clearer workplace expectations for student employees by translating professional norms, such as reliability, communication, and teamwork, into language that first-time employees can easily understand.
• Build confidence in student workers by allowing them to practice real scenarios they may encounter on the job, including responding to frustrated peers, handling unexpected challenges, or navigating policy questions.
• Use structured reflection and coaching conversations to help student employees learn from workplace experiences and develop stronger professional judgment.
• Help student workers recognize how their campus job builds career-ready skills, allowing supervisors to frame everyday tasks as opportunities for leadership and professional growth.
  

Presenter

Dr. Sara Weinstein currently serves as Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life at Randolph-Macon College located in Ashland Virginia.
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