NACE Competency Symposium to be held March 29

Career Discovery and Success and Academic Insight are excited invite you to the annual NACE Competency Symposium on March 29 from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. This event is an on-campus mini-conference where you will learn more about career competency initiatives and have an opportunity to network with the greater Auburn community.

Click here to RSVP. We stronger encourage RSVPs to be submitted by Monday, March 27. An official agenda and calendar hold will follow the RSVP Deadline.

Day of details:

The NACE Symposium will take place in the Student Center. We will kick off altogether for the opening session and then transition through three breakout sessions. The breakout sessions have five concurrent virtual presentations facilitated by volunteer room hosts. NACE’s Competency Symposium 2023 aims to advance equitable outcomes for the college-educated via the facilitation of institution-wide career readiness competency initiatives.

What to expect:

Featured sessions will share a framework of foundational strategies that are core to a successful competency initiative.

Awareness and Learning: Learn from subject matter experts about how to establish a culture of awareness and learning among students, campus collaborators and partners and the importance and impact competencies have on student success, institutional effectiveness and graduate outcomes.

Assessing Competency Proficiency: Hear from expert colleagues about assessing competency proficiency among students, approaches to sharing assessment results with students to enhance proficiency development over time and ways to measure the overall proficiency of student cohorts.

Articulation: Employers now prioritize competency proficiency as more important than GPA, and in some cases, major when engaging candidates. Students’ ability to articulate and contextualize their competency proficiency to employers is a key to a successful transition to the world of work.