employability
EMPLOYABILITY
LAUREATE PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT Employers often complain that newly graduated hires lack critical workplace skills, while higher education institutions struggle to identify and understand the required skills. As a result, they find it difficult to integrate workplace skills education in their curricula. The Laureate Professional Assessment is based on a workplace skills competency framework that will help Laureate institutions improve their curricula, as well as add to current employability tools offered to students at the institution. It will provide assessment tools for first and last year undergraduate students. These tools will enable the measurement of areas of improvement and progress while helping institutions identify where they should focus their curriculum improvement efforts.
FEATURES • A competency model that includes 20 critical career competencies as identified by employers, faculty, alumni and students. • A selection of primary competencies recognized by these stakeholders and Laureate as essential and common to all professions and geographies. • A selection of secondary skills to complement and customize the primary selection to adapt the model to an industry or region. • Assessment tools for freshmen and senior students that enable institutions to assess competency levels and progress throughout the program. BENEFITS • Students achieve a better understanding of workplace skills requirements and learn how to develop them and demonstrate their mastery through certified assessments. • Institutions will develop a closer relationship with employers, by demonstrating that they listen to employers needs and by showing that they are committed to tackle workplace performance issues in a holistic / balanced manner (hard and soft skills). • Laureate institutions will develop a competitive advantage over other universities as few will be able to match the global investment made by Laureate to develop such a high quality assessment tool. • Institutions will identify areas of development they need to concentrate on to better prepare their students. • Students may have the opportunity to share LPA assessment scores that demonstrate workplace skills strengths with prospective employers. • Alumni will have the opportunity to take the assessment and identify their areas of development needs. Institutions will be able to offer professional development to alumni and thus improve and maintain connection to Laureate graduates.
"40 percent of college seniors fail to graduate with the complex reasoning skills needed in today’s workplace "
The Washington Post
"Cross-cutting skills are more important to an individual’s success at their company than his or her undergraduate major.”
Hart Research
“Nine out of 10 employers judge recent college graduates as poorly prepared for the work force in such areas as critical thinking, communication and problem solving." American Association of Colleges and Universities
CLAUDETTE LARA ARGUETA TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LAUREATE NETWORK OFFICE, VISIT
LNO.LAUREATE.NET
Project Coordinator Laureate Employability [email protected]
LAUREATE PROFESSIONAL ASSESSMENT Employers often complain that newly graduated hires lack critical workplace skills, while higher education institutions struggle to identify and understand the required skills. As a result, they find it difficult to integrate workplace skills education in their curricula. The Laureate Professional Assessment is based on a workplace skills competency framework that will help Laureate institutions improve their curricula, as well as add to current employability tools offered to students at the institution. It will provide assessment tools for first and last year undergraduate students. These tools will enable the measurement of areas of improvement and progress while helping institutions identify where they should focus their curriculum improvement efforts.
FEATURES • A competency model that includes 20 critical career competencies as identified by employers, faculty, alumni and students. • A selection of primary competencies recognized by these stakeholders and Laureate as essential and common to all professions and geographies. • A selection of secondary skills to complement and customize the primary selection to adapt the model to an industry or region. • Assessment tools for freshmen and senior students that enable institutions to assess competency levels and progress throughout the program. BENEFITS • Students achieve a better understanding of workplace skills requirements and learn how to develop them and demonstrate their mastery through certified assessments. • Institutions will develop a closer relationship with employers, by demonstrating that they listen to employers needs and by showing that they are committed to tackle workplace performance issues in a holistic / balanced manner (hard and soft skills). • Laureate institutions will develop a competitive advantage over other universities as few will be able to match the global investment made by Laureate to develop such a high quality assessment tool. • Institutions will identify areas of development they need to concentrate on to better prepare their students. • Students may have the opportunity to share LPA assessment scores that demonstrate workplace skills strengths with prospective employers. • Alumni will have the opportunity to take the assessment and identify their areas of development needs. Institutions will be able to offer professional development to alumni and thus improve and maintain connection to Laureate graduates.
"40 percent of college seniors fail to graduate with the complex reasoning skills needed in today’s workplace "
The Washington Post
"Cross-cutting skills are more important to an individual’s success at their company than his or her undergraduate major.”
Hart Research
“Nine out of 10 employers judge recent college graduates as poorly prepared for the work force in such areas as critical thinking, communication and problem solving." American Association of Colleges and Universities
CLAUDETTE LARA ARGUETA TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE LAUREATE NETWORK OFFICE, VISIT
LNO.LAUREATE.NET
Project Coordinator Laureate Employability [email protected]
