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Showcase your Ridgeback Story with your Student Experience Record

The Student Experience Record (SER) is your student involvement story. It captures and highlights involvement in co-curricular activities throughout your Ridgeback journey. The SER helps you understand and articulate the value of your co-curricular experiences.

Your Story Starts Here

A SER-approved experience recognizes meaningful involvement beyond your academic coursework. These structured opportunities include clear expectations, staff oversight, defined participation requirements and opportunities for reflection and learning. As a verified record, your SER helps you track and demonstrate the valuable skills and experiences you develop through participation. It can support conversations with employment advisors and strengthen applications for co-op, employment, leadership positions and other future opportunities throughout your time at Ontario Tech and beyond.
Eligible Experiences - Your Story Starts Here
  • Athletics and recreation leadership roles
  • Club or society executive or general member roles 
  • Committee, governance, or advisory roles
  • Faculty-based engagement or leadership roles
  • Mentorship roles
  • Peer leadership roles
  • Structured training or development experiences connected to campus engagement
  • Student ambassador roles
  • Student service volunteer or leadership roles

The Skills Behind your Story

Learn more - The Skills Behind your Story

Each SER experience is connected to competencies that reflect the skills employers are looking for. Through your involvement, you'll build and strengthen valuable transferable skills through meaningful involvement, engagement and reflection. This helps you better understand and communicate the skills you've gained, making it easier to connect your experiences to future career and leadership opportunities.

Your Story, Captured

See how it works - Your Story, Captured

As you get involved, your story is built along the way. Eligible experiences are automatically added to your SER, making it easy to track your growth, involvement and impact throughout your Ridgeback journey. To ensure accuracy and consistency, validators review and approve all experiences that are eligible to appear on a student's record, based on the role criteria and reflection requirements. Approved experiences are added by June of the corresponding academic year.

Start Your Story

Explore the Experiential Catalogue - Start Your Story

Explore the Experiential Catalogue, an interactive platform to discover involvement opportunities that match your interests, help you build skills and shape your Ridgeback journey.

Search the Experiential Catalogue

Stories behind the SER

Your Student Experience Record (SER) helps you showcase the skills, growth and impact you develop through getting involved. Whether you're building leadership experience, making connections, or contributing to your community, every experience helps tell your story.

 

“Being involved helped me gain confidence and gave me examples to talk about in interviews.”
 — Fourth-year student

“My campus experiences helped me discover my interest in event planning and leadership.”
 — Student club executive

Students smiling in a circle together while sitting at a table outdoors

If you have any questions about your SER , please contact engagement@ontariotechu.ca.