Supporting Students, Educators and Community Partners
Through the Experiential Learning Hub, Career Services supports community-engaged learning in both curricular and co-curricular settings. This work helps ensure that experiential learning is valuable for students while remaining intentional and responsive to community needs.
Faculty and staff can access consultations, tools, workshops, and Share & Learn sessions to support the design of meaningful community-engaged learning. These resources focus on professional partnership, student preparation, goal setting, reflection, and experiential learning strategies.
Students are supported in experiential learning and developing transferrable skills through in-course workshops and Career Services resources, including Career Prep Modules, the Queen's Career Guide to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Experiential Learning WrapAround Modules, the student Leadership and Development Workshop Series, and the Lead, Include, Transform Workshop Series.
Community partners receive wayfinding support to connect with relevant courses, programs, and research opportunities across Queen’s. An example is the Engaging Diverse Student Talent webpage, which helps organizations understand how to recruit and integrate Queen’s students and recent graduates using processes that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. The webpage includes Queen’s Principles for Campus Recruiting, a guide to Experiential Learning as a means of investing in student skills and experience development, and an Engaging & Hiring Diverse Student Talent Employer Toolkit, which includes a series of online modules.
Strengthening Learning and Community Impact
Career Services helps students approach community engagement with stronger preparation, clearer goals, and a more reflective understanding of their social impact. Through these resources, students can also apply their knowledge and skills to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more clearly. Students are encouraged to see their community-engaged learning not only as academic development, but as a part of a larger responsibility to contribute to equity, sustainability, inclusion, and community well-being.
One example of this impact is the Work with Impact Career Guide to the Sustainable Development Goals. The guide connects students with relevant courses, volunteer opportunities, student organizations, and professional development resources, helping them make informed academic and career decisions both now and in the future.
It is also used in classes and workshops across Queen’s, where guided activities encourage students to identify their interests, explore related opportunities, and consider how their future careers can contribute to meaningful social change.
While the SDG Guide highlights how Career Services supports students, its services and resources also strengthen community-engaged learning for faculty, staff, and community partners. Faculty and staff gain practical guidance for designing purposeful learning experiences, while community partners are better connected to people and projects that align with their priorities. Together, these efforts support stronger, more sustainable collaborations.
To learn more about Career Services visit https://careers.queensu.ca/contact
For faculty or staff thinking about adding an EL or CE component to their course, contact el.hub@queensu.ca for a consultation.
Contact Career Services via email mycareer@queensu.ca
This story advances goals related to the following UN SDGs
Story editors: Media Hosseiny, Getachew Gebeyaw Tadese, Adam Elrick
Contributors: Kate Fizzell, Experiential Learning Strategist, Career Services