Competencies Needed for Career Readiness

This activity is important because being career ready is a lifelong process and it$$s important that you are always evaluating your career readiness competencies and working to improve them. As a manager, you can use your knowledge of these competencies to evaluate others$$ career readiness.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the competencies needed for career readiness.

Match each worker to the competency that their scenario best exemplifies.

Proactive Learning Orientation

Social Intelligence

Professionalism$/$Work Ethic Networking New Media Literacy Decision Making Computational Thinking

Match each of the options above to the items below.

Mae has a keen ability to form meaningful relationships with coworkers. People confide in her and feel that she really listens and understands them. Mae enjoys these one$-$on$-$one interactions at work.

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Caleb knows everybody and has a large group of friends in the professional community. Parties and events are his comfort zone.

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Sydney is on top of the latest social media trends. She has thousands of Instagram followers and a successful personal YouTube channel.

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Flynn is a model employee in many ways. He arrives early for work and is always willing to go above and beyond his formal job duties, even if it means staying late or working on Sundays.

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Abena is always the first to volunteer for new roles and projects at her organization. She truly loves learning.

No answer

Javier is great at making choices. He can assess options and decide which is best for his work group with speed and confidence.

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Kari is an analytics whiz. She can take huge amounts of data that seem incoherent to many people and use them to make projections and diagnose problems for her organization.