The Professional Development Ore Cart includes activities that will allow students to acquire and hone the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to prepare for a successful transition from a college environment to a professional career.
Completing an activity or actively engaging in experiences focused on Professional Development will display student’s skills that are:
Emerging
- Demonstrate basic professional communication skills, including the ability to write clear and concise emails, engage in polite and effective phone conversations, and participate in professional networking events.
- Develop basic time management skills, allowing them to prioritize tasks, set goals, and manage their time for both academic and professional responsibilities.
- Identify their career interests, strengths, and values, and set short-term and long-term career goals based on self-assessment.
- Articulate understanding of competencies including critical thinking, professionalism, and teamwork and how they show up at Mines and in the student’s future.
- Explain how one’s own social identity and lived experiences may contribute to one’s own understanding of “professionalism”.
Developing
- Practice collaboration and/or team-building skills during student organization or community events.
- Show initiative in learning and growing new skills and a willingness to learn when taking on new challenges.
- Generate creative solutions by thinking critically and/or creatively.
- Apply professional ethics including integrity, objectivity, and confidentiality.
- Apply effective communication skills (oral and written) including active listening.
- Integrate professional skills such as communication, critical thinking, and teamwork into their pursuits and efforts both on- and off-campus.
- Engage with others while navigating different identities and respecting individual differences on a team.
- Resolve disconnects between one’s personal identity and perspective on professionalism with other people’s identities and lived experiences.
Exemplary
- Apply conflict resolution skills in a safe learning environment.
- Advance Professional Development at Mines with their peers.
- Analyze information to make evidence-based decisions.
- Provide and seek constructive feedback to improve performance.