Career Center

Career and Life Design

You demonstrate this competency when you:

Create goals for your work and personal life, and actively work toward your goals on an ongoing basis.
Actively engage in continuous learning.
Adapt to the changing needs and demands in business and society.
Engage in reflective practices.
Practice self-care.
Demonstrate awareness of desired skills, knowledge or abilities for a particular role.
Develop essential knowledge, skills and abilities to increase your employability.
Build meaningful personal and professional relationships.
Communicate your knowledge, skills and abilities as an applicant/candidate for a job, internship, or graduate school.
Negotiate the price of a high-cost item such as a vehicle.
Manage relocation to a new residence and/or geographic location.
Embrace informed risk taking.
Learn and grow from failure or rejection

Employers/Graduate programs may seek demonstration of this competency through behavioral interview questions like:

Where did you see yourself in five years?
Tell me about yourself.
If you do not get accepted into this graduate program, what are your alternative plans?

What are some ideas of ways you can continue to develop your competence in Career and Self Development?

Adapt to changes imposed by external circumstances, such as a pandemic requiring you to transition to remote learning and working.
Visit the Career Center.
Practice interviewing.
Develop professional relationships and support network.
Try things to test your interests or ideas.
Develop plans and goals for your future.
Seek and embrace development opportunities.