Workforce Readiness: A Working Definition<\/em><\/p>\n Ensure that today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s workforce has the skills, competencies and behaviors to succeed in today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s workplace.<\/em><\/p>\n According to the Career Readiness Partner Council<\/a>, a career-ready person “effectively navigates pathways that connect education and employment to achieve a fulfilling, financially-secure and successful career. A career is more than just a job. Career readiness has no defined endpoint. To be career ready in our ever-changing global economy requires adaptability and a commitment to lifelong learning, along with mastery of key academic, technical and workplace knowledge, skills and dispositions that vary from one career to another and change over time as a person progresses along a developmental continuum. Knowledge, skills and dispositions that are inter-dependent and mutually reinforcing.”<\/p>\n Basically, that a career is more than just a job, and it takes more than just technical knowledge to find your career. Your innate talents are essential for career readiness and necessary for engaging in today\u2019s economy, but you also need skills that you did not necessarily learn in class.<\/p>\n Hopefully these links will help you get started on the path to workforce and career readiness:<\/p>\n General:<\/strong><\/p>\n My Personal Formula for a Winning Resume<\/a> by Laszlo Bock<\/a>.<\/p>\n STEM Workforce Trends:\u00a0<\/strong> Social Networking Tips:<\/b> Networking 101: How to Social Network Effectively<\/a> by Ronald E. Riggio Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n What is Workforce Readiness? Workforce Readiness: A Working Definition Ensure that today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s workforce has the skills, competencies and behaviors to succeed in today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s workplace. So what does that mean? According to the Career Readiness Partner Council, a career-ready person “effectively navigates pathways that connect education and employment to achieve a fulfilling, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":448,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45143"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46738,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45143\/revisions\/46738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/stem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}So what does that mean?<\/h2>\n
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\nU.S. Knowledge-Intensive Services Industries Employ 18 Million and Pay High Wages<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWhat is Networking?<\/a> from Strommen Center for Meaningful Work
\n7 Ways College Students Can Benefit from LinkedIn
\n<\/a>Your 2026 LinkedIn survival guide (5 strategic tips) <\/a>by Juliana Chan<\/a>, PhD<\/p>\n