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Measuring Competency Proficiency: Career Readiness Pilot Program
Description:
If your provost, a parent, or an employer asked for data on how ‘career ready’ your students are, could you easily supply them with hard data? Without a consistent method to measure competence, 84 founding member institutions joined the Career Readiness Project in a pilot program to do just that. Over the course of the last year these 84 organizations have leveraged an adapted version of a proven HR platform developed by I/O psychologists to have their students’ recent work experience assessed against the eight NACE career readiness competencies. The NACE Center for Career Development and Talent Acquisition and SkillSurvey will present initial project findings after analyzing student ratings from over 11,000 evaluators (supervisors/coworkers) at 2,701 companies on 28-30 work behaviors following an internship or student employment. During this session we will share the difference between what employers deem ‘most essential’ and how students in the pilot group were rated by evaluators. We will also share with attendees how self-aware students are based on the level of agreement between evaluator and student self-ratings. The Washington Center will present how this first-of-its-kind data helps to shape their intern programming by allowing them to measure how ‘career ready’ their interns are compared to other interns nationally and among actual job candidates. The NACE Center will review how to join the next phase of the Career Readiness Project and share practices on using data to advance competency initiatives on your campus to address the challenge from employers to produce graduates who are ‘career ready’.
Track:
Competencies & Skills
Main Speaker:
Matthew Brink, NACE
Additional Speakers:
Randy Bitting, SkillSurvey Sherrod Williams, The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars
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