Submit an Experience

Student's Role

• You will be asked to submit between three to five job objectives per semester.
• Your objectives are written/completed in Handshake when you complete the online process.
• Review How to Write Your Job-Related Objectives to see best practices.

Employer, Preceptor, Faculty Researcher, etc.

• The individual overseeing the experience will receive an email sent by Career Services/Handshake with a link to view. Follow the prompts to review and approve the student’s submitted experience. Please note: sometimes Handshake emails can go to Junk/Clutter.
• Two weeks before the end-of-term, a final evaluation will be sent out in an email from Career Services/Handshake. The individual overseeing the experience (employer, preceptor, faculty researcher, etc.) will complete the Final Evaluation by following the link provided.
• Once completed, this will be shared with the faculty coordinator/instructor of the class by the Career Services office.

Faculty Coordinator/Instructor of the Class

• Prior to the approval process in Handshake, the faculty coordinator/instructor of the class may receive an email from or have an appointment/conversation with the student to determine if pre-requisites for the class are met.
• If pre-requisites are met, the student will report the experience in Handshake to begin the electronic approval process. Once the student completes their submission, the individual overseeing the experience will receive the approval email first.
• Upon their completion, an email from Career Services/Handshake will come to the faculty coordinator/instructor of the class with a link to follow. This link provides all the information submitted by the student, including their objectives for review and to approve or decline and add comments at the end if necessary.
• The Career Services Experiential Learning Coordinator will receive an email when all above steps are complete and finalize the approval process. If applicable to the program, final evaluations will be auto-generated two weeks prior to the end of the semester. Please note: no mid-term evaluations are sent.
• Students and employers have 5 days to complete the final evaluations. Career Services will email the faculty coordinator/instructor of the class the results in a spreadsheet to be used for grading purposes.

Career Services

• The overall responsibility of Career Services is to keep the student’s Submit an Experience on track from start to finish.
• Career Services reviews the student’s submitted experience and verifies all fields and all assigned approvers are appropriate.
• Career Services initiates the approval process in Handshake.
• Students and employers will receive the final evaluation and have 5 days to complete. Once evaluations are complete, Career Services will send an email with the final results to the faculty coordinator/instructor of the class the first day of finals.
• Career Services is here to help address any questions or troubleshooting. Please contact:
  steffanie.young@UND.edu
  701.777.3906

For co-op positions only, you either register for one or two credits, determined by the number of hours you are working. You must work an average of 20 hours per week to receive one credit, or 40 hours per week to receive two.

• 1 credit = half-time student status
• 2 credits = full-time student status

Credits for internships and other experiences vary and are determined by your department's faculty coordinator/instructor. 

• A Final Evaluation survey is emailed to the student and the employer to complete two weeks prior to the end of the semester. 
  • Students will have the opportunity to reflect on what helped them achieve their learning objectives, explain why an objective may not have been accomplished, rate their academic department and employer regarding the experience process, provide feedback, etc. 
  • Employer/supervisor will be able to reflect on the student's communication skills, collaboration, problem solving, professionalism, and comment on exceptional points or deficiencies.  
• To review your objectives, log-in to Handshake.
  • Go to Career Center on the left-hand side of your homepage and choose Experiences from the middle tabs
  • Click View Details to see this semesters' experience.
  • Your objectives can be found by scrolling down to the bottom of the survey response. 
• Students and employer/supervisors will receive an email from Career Services via Handshake two weeks before this is due. Please watch your inbox and clutter folders for this email. The email contains the link to the final evaluation.