MyExperience Transcript (MET)
Share Your JourneyThe MyExperience Transcript (MET) is a validated record of your professional and personal experiences, beyond academics, that you have engaged in while at the University of Lethbridge. When used in combination with your academic transcript, it provides a comprehensive picture of your knowledge, strengths and relevant experience to future employers, grad schools, professional associations and more. |
Why Care About Your MET?
Self Discovery & Reflection
- Enhances your self-awareness by encouraging reflection on your achievements, skills and areas for improvement.
- Develops critical thinking skills by prompting you to analyze and evaluate your learning experiences and their real-world applications.
Professional Portfolio & Documentation
- Builds a comprehensive professional portfolio that accumulates and displays relevant work experiences and core employability skills for active job searching.
- Creates verifiable evidence of your achievements that provides concrete proof of your capabilities and accomplishments to potential employers.
Communication & Interview Skills
- Strengthens your interview performance by helping you articulate and apply your competencies and experiences in a professional, clear and concise manner.
- Facilitates the creation of a compelling personal narrative about your growth and capabilities that showcases your professional development journey.
Career Advancement & Networking
- Demonstrate a holistic educational approach that exemplifies your transferable, work-related skill and comprehensive learning experience.
- Expands your professional networks both on and off campus to enhance career opportunities and connections.
What Goes in Your MET?
Your MyExperience Transcript captures the full picture of your university experiences, including:
- Co-operative Education & Applied Studies
- Volunteer & Leadership Experiences (including club participation)
- Internships & Practicum Placements
- Work-Terms
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Workshop & Event Participation
- Research Projects & More!
It's NOT Just a List
This special document is so much more powerful than just a simple list:
Your MyExperience Transcript doesn't just track what you did - it helps you reflect on what you learned, how you grew, and the skills you developed along the way!
How to Make the Most of Your MET
1. Add Your Experiences
Log into MyExperience and start adding all the amazing things you are currently involved in from the list of valid experiences listed above.
Don't forget about your past/previously completed experiences too!
2. Get Validation
The majority of applicable experiences must get verified by either MyExperience staff, or by designated validators of your experience.
This process makes your MET official and adds credibility to your record.
3. Reflect & Grow
Leverage the platform's built-in reflection to think about what you learned and how these experiences shaped you.
4. Put It To Use!
Publish your MET to LinkedIn, include it in application packages you send, or reference it in interviews to showcase your full potential.
Put Your MET To Work Today!
Strengthen Your Resume
Use your MET experiences to fill out your resume with concrete examples.
Include competencies you've developed and specific achievements.
Nail Your Interviews
Reference your MET when preparing for interviews.
Use specific examples to demonstrate the skills and experiences employers are looking for.
Boost Your LinkedIn
Share your MET directly to LinkedIn to showcase your university involvement.
Click here to learn how.
Apply with Confidence
Reference your MET when preparing for interviews.
Use specific examples to demonstrate the skills and experiences employers are looking for.
Experience More, Go Further
Your journey has already begun - now its time to get recognition for it
Need Help Getting Started?
We're here to help
Building up your MET should be straightforward, but if you need support, the MyExperience support team has your back.
Whether you're a first-years just getting involved or a PhD candidate with years of experiences to add, our team can help you make the most of your record.
MyExperience Support Team Contact:
Email: my.experience@uleth.ca
Phone: 403-329-2000
Location: AH 151 (Anderson Hall)
FAQ's
In order for an experience to be considered for addition, the experience must:
- Result in uLethbridge academic recognition or recognized not-for-credit activity.
- Be administered and validated by uLethbridge, or by a trusted partner. Validators will be uLethbridge staff/faculty or organizations with a formalized relationship with uLethbridge.
- Provide an opportunity for students to develop one or more competencies from the MyExperience competency list (see below).
- Enrich the community at uLethbridge and/or the broader communities in which we exist.
Experience validation is typically assigned to the administrator of the activity, or someone they have deemed as responsible (within an appropriate distance of its execution).
In the case that the above is not applicable, or had not been properly established at the time of completion, the responsibility of validation falls onto the MyExperience support team.
Contact us at my.experience@uleth.ca for further details on how we can help.
The University’s competency framework is an in-house, comprehensive learning guide designed to empower and lead you throughout your personal and professional growth journey. Doing so by defining experiences under 5 core competency categories, ensuring that your activity provides you with ample opportunity to develop essential skillsets for success in academia and beyond.
Approved experiences have competencies attached to it by staff and faculty in accordance with how the activity falls into each of the 5 categories. After inclusion, you can choose to self-select the competencies you have developed, as a form of self-reflection and to help you develop a vocabulary to talk about the skills you acquired during the experience.
The University of Lethbridge is proud to be Canada's first university to integrate MyExperience Transcripts with MyCreds.ca accounts. Students can now access and share both their academic transcripts and experiential learning records through a single digital wallet.
This innovative integration allows students to:
- Manage all their credentials in 1 secure location
- Share their complete educational profile seamlessly
- Access their records anytime, anywhere in the world
To learn more about this process, please refer to the link below.