
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
QEP College to Career Launch
Details about the official College to Career launch coming soon.
Fall 2019
More Than A Major
"Today's employers value more than just a college degree. They want their new hires to have a broad range of skills and knowledge to solve complex problems." Click on the link for the full story:
GSU Magazine Summer 2019 Issue
Making College Count
"College to Career will help students become aware of their career competencies, connect those competencies to the work they do, and demonstrate their proficiency in transferable skills." Click on the link for the full story:
GSU Magazine Spring 2019 Issue
QEP Update
"Preparing to Introduce College-to-Career This September." Click on the link for the full story:
Office of the Provost News June 2019 - Vol. 1, Issue 5
Your Career Starts Here!
Where Will Students See Enhancements?
QEP Student Learning Outcomes
1. Awareness
In the first year, students become aware of the career-readiness competencies employers value most.
2. Connection
Students articulate the connections among specific curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities and the career-readiness competencies they acquire.
3. Demonstration
During their undergraduate time, students demonstrate career-readiness competencies in a variety of interpersonal and digital media frameworks.
CAREER FOCUS
University Career Services supports students in their progression from college to career. Starting in the freshman year through experiential learning through professional development and action planning, students are presented with the strategies and actions they can take to achieve their career goals. Faculty are vital allies, and UCS makes resources available to them. In addition to career counseling and job/graduate school search, UCS develops and maintains relationships with hiring entities to connect, in a variety of ways, students with internship, part time, job, service learning, and on-campus opportunities.
QEP College to Career Competencies
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Some examples of Critical Thinking/Problem Solving Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- recognize, build, and appraise arguments
- create and implement action plans
- analyze visual data
- conduct academic and archival research
- mine and analyze data
- create and implement solutions to crises/problems
- identify errors in reasoning
- provide useful summaries/precis
- connect valid research to support arguments/claims
- weigh options by considering impact
Where can you practice these skills?
Oral/Written Communication
Some examples of Oral/Written Communication Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- communicate to a mass audience
- use presentation software effectively
- produce successful and convincing proposals
- engage in social/community/political activism
- edit and publish material
- engage in storytelling and analyze narrative
- prepare interview questions and answers
- curate and maintain social media information
- translate research
- participate in active listening and respond appropriately
Where can you practice these skills?
Teamwork/Collaboration
Some examples of Teamwork/Collaboration Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- assist in organizing and planning
- collaborate in group projects
- participate in collaborative writing
- design and assess tasks
- prioritize tasks
- follow through on tasks
- manage executive order function
- navigate conflict
- listen and respond appropriately
- show commitment and follow through
Where can you practice these skills?
Digital Technology
Some examples of Digital Technology Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- demonstrate technical and program literacy
- design creative digital solutions
- know and apply field-related technology to solve challenges
- engage in copywriting and editing tasks
- translate data
- create audience-appropriate layouts
- engage in variety of digital publishing formats
- produce audio and video solutions
- manage podcast projects
- use variety of modalities to express meaning
Where can you practice these skills?
Leadership
Some examples of Leadership Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- organize and manage projects
- develop time management strategies
- train/teach others how to perform tasks
- observe and reflect
- perform an advisory role
- develop and implement outcomes
- promote critical literacy
- take calculated risks
- manage conflict resolution
- generate ideas
Where can you practice these skills?
Professionalism/Work Ethic
Some examples of Professionalism/Work Ethic Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- meet deadlines
- demonstrates sensitivity to other's concerns
- ask and respond appropriately to questions
- accept responsibility
- anticipate needs
- seek other perspectives
- demonstrate time management
- adapt to changed circumstances/environment
- interpret other's emotions
- solicit and adjust to feedback
Where can you practice these skills?
Career Management
Some examples of Career Management Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- adapt to professional situations
- demonstrate an awareness to digital presence
- set and achieve goals
- articulate interests, skills, and values
- show attention to detail
- take initiative
- network
- curate e-portfolio
- identify support groups needed to achieve goals
- implement solutions
Where can you practice these skills?
Global/Intercultural Fluency
Some examples of Global/Intercultural Fluency Career-Readiness Skills students learn in their courses are:
- show an awareness of diverse perspectives
- demonstrate respect for other cultures
- approach team/group communication with sensitivity and openness
- show awareness of global/community issues
- question forms of power, privilege, and inequality
- develop a sense of personal and civic responsibility
- analyze cultural norms and values
- understand the influence of history, geography, gender, race, ethnicity, etc. on identity
- develop strategies for communicating with people with different languages
- demonstrate self-sufficiency in 'outside the comfort zone' situation
Where can you practice these skills?
About Portfolium
Portfolium is an academic portfolio network that gives faculty, students, and alumni the power to create, manage and personalize their own beautifully organized, interactive collection of projects, work samples, skills, activities and accomplishments. Portfolium allows students to showcase their work, projects and experiences well beyond the limits of a traditional resume and transcript in a way that demonstrates the true value of their education and future potential.
Portfolium is partnered with colleges, universities, districts and systems across the country to provide millions of verified student accounts, exclusive branded ePortfolio networks and a suite of features for administrators and faculty to engage students, provide feedback and guidance, assess skills and learning outcomes, and track outcomes. The software provides robust ePortfolios/profiles supporting unlimited access and storage with the ability to aggregate from and share to various silos (LMS, Google Drive, Dropbox, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vimeo, Prezi, etc.) and repositories across multiple media/file types (images as .jpg, .gif, .png, audio, PDF, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.), including badges/micro-credentials from various issuers adhering to the Open Badge Standard.
Students can use their Portfolium accounts to document their collegiate work, projects and experiences, as well as their overall career competencies and readiness for the workplace. By combining features typically reserved for social and professional networking platforms with the ability to create and aggregate multimedia content from across the Web. Portfolium provides a deeper, all-encompassing view of a student's passions, abilities and potential. In addition to the networks, yearly data and analytics reports on network activity, engagement and outcomes are provided to the university. Administrator accounts are provided to university administrators, allowing them to make network announcements and maintain a digital resume database.
The university is committed to the use of ePortfolios as a way to help students showcase their professional skills. All Georgia State students are provided with portfolios within the platform upon matriculation at the university. This platform will also help the QEP Director pull data crucial to assessing QSLOs Awareness, Connection and Demonstration. QEP administrators participate in biweekly conference calls with Portfolium staff, oversee the development of Portfolium training videos for faculty and schedule train the trainer sessions. Those faculty, departments and service units dedicated to using Portfolium are given higher rankings during the incentive grants and fellows awarding periods (each year of the QEP).
Open Badges are digital badges that are verified and contain information about skills and achievements. Each Open Badge has its own credentialing requirements. The Open Badge image and credentials are uniform across the Web.
USER SUPPORT
Use Portfolium to show off your best work to future employers. Network more than 3,000 along with Georgia State students and alumni to share ideas, collaborate and be inspired. Join a vibrant, online Panther community today.
STUDENT DEMO VIDEO
COMMUNICATION TOOLS
To help share the "College To Career" program, the materials below have been developed for your use:
- Poster
- FAQ Flyer
- Faculty Overview Flyer
- Student Overview Presentation