NACE Career Readiness: Understanding the Eight Competencies

Career readiness is key to ensuring your successful entrance into the workforce. It is the foundation upon which a successful career is launched. Career readiness is, quite simply, the new career currency.

NACE has organized these skills into eight career readiness competencies, each of which can be demonstrated in a variety of ways. Click the link below to review a definition of each competency and see examples of ways you can deliberately grow as a professional in each of these areas.

Use NACE Career Competencies to Develop As a Professional

Non-Pathways students:

Use the prompts in this post (link) to assess yourself and gain feedback from a supervisor. Then reflect on those assessments and set SMART goals for professional growth.

If you’re in a Pathway, you’re doing these things in your PATH classes.