2023 NACE Competency Symposium (Fall)

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services professionals
Competency: Acquisition of appropriate career resources
Fee: $99 (member); $149 (nonmember);

Summary
The Fall 2023 Competency Symposium features four program themes:

Awareness and Learning

Learn from subject matter experts about how to establish a culture of awareness and learning among students, campus collaborators, and partners and the importance and impact competencies have on student success, institutional effectiveness, and graduate outcomes.

Assessing Competency Proficiency

Hear from expert colleagues about assessing competency proficiency among students, approaches to sharing assessment results with students to enhance proficiency development over time, tactics to measure the overall proficiency of student cohorts, and methods to gauge the impact of an organizations competency program.

Articulation

Employers now prioritize competency proficiency as more important than GPA, and in some cases, major when engaging candidates. Learn how to coach students to contextually articulate their competency proficiency to employers in cover letters, resumes, interviews, and other interactions with employers.

NEW! Competencies and Talent Acquisition

Hone strategies and practices that leverage competencies/skills within the talent acquisition life cycle including diversifying your internship and entry-level workforce, internship programs, candidate selection, interviewing process, etc.

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Integrating career readiness competencies on campus,
- Working with faculty to help students connect classroom to career, and
- Partnering with internship employers to provide real-world experience to students.