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Career Readiness Skills 

Career Readiness is the attainment and demonstration of requisite competencies that broadly prepare college graduates for a successful transition into the workplace. Students can expand on these competencies learned though curricular and co-curricular activities on resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and interview answers. These competencies are as follows: 

• Career & Self-Development: Proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within organization.

• Communication Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization.

• Critical Thinking Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information. 

•  Leadership Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals. 

• Professionalism Knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace. 

• Teamwork Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities 

Resume Breakdown

Below is a resume template to serve as a guide. Note that experiences should be in reverse chronological order. Each experience should include dates and locations. As a student, your education should be at the top of your page. The rest of the page is ordered by relevance to the position. While not represented here, study abroad, volunteer experience, certifications, and relevant coursework are other options to present on a resume. 

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