This interactive workshop is grounded in the work of the 2025/26 LevelUP Faculty Learning Community (FLC) and addresses a persistent challenge in higher education: while students often complete meaningful and rigorous coursework, they struggle to articulate and demonstrate what they have learned - particularly in ways valued by employers - on résumés or portfolios.

While faculty routinely design learning experiences, their role in helping students translate course learning into visible, career-ready competencies is less clearly defined. This session presents a human-centered, evidence-informed approach that places students’ goals, contexts, and aspirations at the heart of teaching design - especially amid AI-driven shifts in education and hiring.

Participants will engage in guided activities drawn from the LevelUP FLC, including learner persona (profile) development, employer research, course analysis, artifact identification, and résumé template drafting. Attendees will leave with practical templates, draft artifacts, and a transferable framework for helping students make their learning visible in human-driven, real-world ways.

Objective

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to create a draft résumé or portfolio template that aligns course learning outcomes with employer-valued competencies through a human-centered, evidence-informed approach.

Presenters

• Brandy Rhodes brandylrhodes@yahoo.com, University of South Alabama
• Michelle Hale mahale@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• Gayan Abeynanda gsabeynanda@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama
• Amma Adusei gammaadusei@southalabama.edu, University of South Alabama