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HOW TO ACQUIRE THESE SKILLS Now that you know what skills and personal traits employers want, how do you get them? It’s easy when you take advantage of what is offered to you during your college experience. There are three ways for you to “claim” these skills: 1. Every course you take offers an opportunity to acquire skills- through discussion, assignments, projects, and research. 2. The University has over 80 different organizations and clubs that you can get involved in. 3. Your part time employment and volunteer works. Communications • Take classes/workshops on • Find campus employment time management, study skills, where you can develop • Take a speech and writing or assertiveness. computer skills classes • Learn new skills and update • Become a computer tutor or • Volunteer to be the existing ones-stay current get a job in your college spokesperson for a group computer center’s ‘Help Desk’ presentation • Practice punctuality; establish timelines for meeting goals, • Ask for tutoring or special help • Join Toastmasters, or take and achieve them! if you struggle with computer course on communication • Balance your checkbook and concepts/courses skills. pay off credit card bills • Develop your own home page • Keep a journal; write for the monthly on the web school newspaper, poetry magazine • Learn to budget; acquire skills • Do the research for assigned in money management paper online, with the help of a • Learn how to write a resume, software ...

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HOW TO ACQUIRE THESE SKILLS

Now that you know what skills and personal traits employers want, how do you get them? It’s easy when you take advantage of what is offered to

you during your college experience. There are three ways for you to “claim” these skills:

1.

Every course you take offers an opportunity to acquire skills- through discussion, assignments, projects, and research.

2.

The University has over 80 different organizations and clubs that you can get involved in.

3.

Your part time employment and volunteer works.

Communications

•

Take a speech and writing

classes

•

Volunteer to be the

spokesperson for a group

presentation

•

Join Toastmasters, or take

course on communication

skills.

•

Keep a journal; write for the

school newspaper, poetry

magazine

•

Learn how to write a resume,

cover letters, or scholarship

applications

•

Write letters to the editor of

your campus or local

newspaper

•

Speak up in class; ask

questions especially when you

don’t understand something!

•

Take jobs as a receptionist,

customer service person, help

desk, or crisis hotline volunteer

•

Develop a relationship with

someone from a different

culture.

Critical Thinking/Problem-

Solving

•

Join clubs and organizations

that tackle a project from the

ground up

•

Follow electoral politics:

evaluate the candidates and

vote!

•

Decide on a college major by

the end of freshman year

•

Join a book discussion group

or debate team

•

Develop and express a strong

‘position’ in research papers

•

Take classes in philosophy,

research methods, literature

•

Write a guest editorial or

opinion piece in the school

newspaper

•

Inform yourself about issues:

attend public hearings and

lectures

Personal Management/Social

Responsibility

•

Learn personal manners and

business etiquette

•

Take classes/workshops on

time management, study skills,

or assertiveness.

•

Learn new skills and update

existing ones-stay current

•

Practice punctuality; establish

timelines for meeting goals,

and achieve them!

•

Balance your checkbook and

pay off credit card bills

monthly

•

Learn to budget; acquire skills

in money management

software such as Quicken

•

Take summer jobs, campus

jobs, internships to

develop/demonstrate work

ethic

•

Volunteer in a social service

agency, church, or school

•

Take classes in ethics, social

problems, anthropology

TEAMWORK

•

Actively participate in campus

clubs, organizations

•

Take an active role in group

class projects, study groups,

service clubs

•

Volunteer for tasks in clubs

and organizations; become an

officer

•

Take classes which explore

other cultures, such a

anthropology and sociology

•

Travel or Study Abroad-

Global Graduates Program

•

Participate in intramural and

intercollegiate sports

•

Opt for group projects (versus

individual ones) when given a

choice

•

Run for office or volunteer in

your college’s student

government.

TECHNICAL/SCIENTIFIC

•

Take computer courses that

build skills in word processing,

databases, and spreadsheets

•

Learn about and become a

skilled user of email, Internet,

and world wide web

applications

•

Find campus employment

where you can develop

computer skills

•

Become a computer tutor or

get a job in your college

computer center’s ‘Help Desk’

•

Ask for tutoring or special help

if you struggle with computer

concepts/courses

•

Develop your own home page

on the web

•

Do the research for assigned

paper online, with the help of a

Reference Librarian

•

Develop a ‘computer-friendly’

or scanable resume, and submit

it to an employer

LEADERSHIP

•

Volunteer to lead a group

project

•

Run for office in your college’s

student government

•

Seek jobs that offer

supervisory or management

duties

•

Take advantage of leadership

training opportunities

•

Organize a community service

project and get others involved

•

Take initiative in class and at

work

•

Be a peer mentor, tutor, or RA

•

Do what it takes to get on a

nations ‘Who’s Who’ list

CREATIVITY

•

Take a drawing or music class

•

Write a poem, short story, or

song lyrics

•

Design a computer game

•

Keep an idea book

•

Express your ideas in a new

medium

•

Suggest new processes and

procedures

•

Develop and maintain a

portfolio of your creative work

•

Design your dream house

•

Design brochures or other

promotional materials; develop

an advertising campaign