Being career ready involves acquiring both hard and soft skills essential for transitioning from college to the workforce. While students feel proficient in areas such as professionalism and communications, employers often see significant skill gaps, particularly in these competencies. Lifelong learning and adaptability will be crucial as job markets evolve and new roles emerge.

2.  Being career ready means having skills that
broadly prepare you to transition from being a
college student to being an employee, manager,
or entrepreneur. You will learn these skills
during your time in school. Being career ready
also means you can demonstrate these skills
when you start a job. Learning marketable
skills will help you find and keep a job and
build a career once you graduate!

3.  These skills are domain specific and usually
measurable skills that are needed to do a job. One
will learn these skills for the future career during
the graduation. Hard skills, for example, might
include building websites, cooking for fine dining
restaurants, performing statistical analysis,
learning graphic design, mastering math, or
understanding art restoration. These are also called
technical or applied skills.
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4.  These skills are also known as transferable
skills because you can transfer them to any job
you have over the course of your career. You
will learn these skills as you interact with
teachers, course materials, and other students
during your courses or through extracurricular
activities. Soft skills, for example, might
include listening, reasoning, professionalism,
courtesy, punctuality, or public speaking.

5.  First, consider looking for a career that requires a
very high level of skill or creativity, such as
writing, designing, product development, market
strategy, or financial planning. Employers are
always looking for creative workers who can use
their talents and technology to solve business
problems and create opportunities.
 Second, you might consider learning a skilled
trade, such as carpentry, nursing, or auto repair.
For these careers, you must be physically present
to provide service, and your required skills will be
in high demand.


6.  Combining proximity with creativity in a career
gives you added security Consider that some jobs
that will exist in the future have not even been
dreamed up yet! You might change the type of
work you do over the course of your career. We all
must be lifelong learners to stay competitive in the
job market.
 When it comes to rating the “career readiness” of
college graduates, there are differences in
perception-in some cases, very marked ones-
between students entering the job market and the
employers that hire them.
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7.  Professionalism/Work Ethic
 Oral/Written Communications
 Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
 Teamwork/Collaboration
 Leadership
 Digital Technology
 Career Management
 Global/Intercultural Fluency
This can be problematic because it suggests that
employers see skills gaps in key areas whereas
college students believe that these gaps do not exist.

8.  Employers and graduating seniors differ greatly when it comes to
rating proficiency in competencies such as professionalism/work
ethic, oral/written communications, and leadership as students
consider themselves much more proficient than the employers.
The gap between the two groups ,according to a
survey seemed greatest when it came to students’
professionalism and work ethic; nearly 90percent of students
considered themselves proficient in this area, but less than half of
employers agreed.
 Ironically, the only competency that employers rated the
proficiency of college graduates higher than did graduating
seniors is digital technology. Employers also believe new hires are
hitting the mark on teamwork; more than three-quarters rated
new graduates as proficient in this competency.

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