NACE Competencies-

Career and Self-Development: proactively develop oneself and ones career through continued personal and professional learning, awareness of ones strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities and networking to build relationships.

Communication: Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, fact, and perspectives.

Critical Thinking: Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.

Equity and Inclusion: Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures.

Leadership: Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals

Teamwork: Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals.

Technology: Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiency, complete tasks, and accomplish goals.

Complete the following sections with the knowledge of the NACE Competencies, above, all of these sections can be a generalization of a typical university business division.

Context/Background

1. A university is asking you to assess its business program. The university is asking for feedback on how to make students more career ready in terms of the NACE Competencies.

Discussion

2. Diagnosis- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the in-the-classroom and outside-of-the classroom experiences that are had at a University to strengthen the NACE Competencies

3. Approach- Provide a high-level strategy for how a university could better make students career ready

4. Plan- outline steps a university should take to implement your approach to better prepare students