Competencies

NACE Quick Poll: More Than 83% of Respondents Implementing Career Readiness Competencies

NACE’s Career Services Benchmarks Quick Poll reveals the progress colleges and universities are making in implementing career readiness competencies on their campuses.

Their Words, Their Worries: A Grounded Look at Career Readiness From the Student Perspective

This article shares early findings from a three-year study on how students define and experience communication readiness as they prepare for the workforce.

ULN’s Four-year Plan Guides Each Student’s Journey Inside and Outside the Classroom

When the University of Texas University Leadership Network launched in 2013, it had two main goals that remain in place today: to help students graduate in four years and to provide students who are under-resourced with an opportunity to participate in various forms of experiential learning without having to work.

UNF OspreyPro Program Targets Students’ Career and Professional Development Cycle

The University of North Florida (UNF) has historically offered innovative programs, services, resources, and events to ensure students are successful and career ready by the time they graduate. This approach led leadership to embark on a new path at the intersection of UNF’s core functions and NACE’s career readiness competencies.

College of Arts and Sciences at IUB Constructs Pillars Experience to Equip Students for Career Success

The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington recently launched its Pillars Undergraduate Experience, a framework designed to prepare students for academic achievement and lifelong career success.

The Gap in Perceptions of New Grads’ Competency Proficiency and Resources to Shrink It

There is a clear and persistent disconnect between how students and employers perceive students’ development of the competencies they need to be career ready as they enter the workforce.

The Validity of the NACE Competency Assessment Tool

Review the evidence for the reliability and validity of the NACE Competency Assessment Tool. This article also offers brief context for the assessment tool, outlines the methodology employed, and provides the final, top-line results of the study.

Competency Implementation Helps Lehman College School of Business Develop Career-Ready Grads, Advance Toward Accreditation

To produce career-ready graduates, the Lehman College School of Business intentionally equips its students with competencies through the promotion of applied learning in its three programs.

Recruiters and Students Have Differing Perceptions of New Grads’ Proficiency in Competencies

Although new college graduates looking to enter the workforce and employers hiring these graduates agree on which competencies are most important for job candidates to hone, their perception of student proficiency in them differs.

Embedding Competencies Helps Ensure Students Develop Skills to Achieve Desired Career Outcomes

To prepare students for their transition to the workforce, career centers have to account for the standards of professionalism shifting over the past several years.

SAXBYS BREWS UP EXPERIENTIAL PROGRAM STRONGLY INFUSED WITH COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT

Through its Experiential Learning Platform™, Saxbys builds individualized academic partnerships to open cafes that provide exceptional paid experiential learning opportunities for students.

Employers Identify Four “Must Have” Career Readiness Competencies for College Graduates

When asked to rate the career readiness competencies of college graduates in terms of “essential need,” employers view four as vital, according to results of NACE’s Job Outlook 2016 Spring Update.

Recruiters and Students Have Differing Perceptions of New Grad Proficiency in Competencies

New graduates and their potential employers can agree on which skills are most important for job candidates, but differ on how proficient new graduates are in those abilities.