[DELETE THIS TEXT: Showcase your skills to readers using the Career Readiness Skills homepage. Select a skill and complete the worksheet to reflect on that skill. Define the skill, and generate examples of where you have developed/used it. Consider the impact the skill may have on your future goals. After completing the skill worksheets, identify your top 3 skills and write a summary of them here. Write a paragraph for each skill. Be sure to include how you developed it, provide examples of where/how you use it, and how might these three skills benefit you in the future or assist you in achieving your goal(s)?
CAREER CENTER EMPLOYER STUDY FINDINGS
Employers who hire SJFC students were asked: “For students entering college today, should colleges focus more, less, or about the same on these key concepts?”
The question asks employers to rate eight competencies that are aligned with the College-wide Learning Goals. The table below shows the level of importance for the key concepts surveyed, with More assigned a numerical value of 1, The Same = 2, and Less = 3. The closer the Mean is to 1, the more often employers rated it as a key concept they would like colleges to focus on.
This question measures the employer’s perception of how prepared current college graduates are for the workplace on these eight competencies. It also provides insight to how the employer values and weighs these competencies in their entry-level hiring process.
With the alignment of these competences to the College-wide Learning Goals, the Career Center is able to demonstrate how students are developing these skills through a common educational experience in the core curriculum at SJFC. These results can be used counsel students on how they might relate their academic experience to employers – how they have developed or are developing a particular skill set.