Career Competencies: Your Passport to Professionalism

Eagle Elevate provides Embry-Riddle students with the opportunity to learn, practice, develop, acquire, and document career readiness competencies that employers seek in addition to technical skills learned through academic coursework. These competencies are soft skills like communication, teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, and more. Students who demonstrate these skills stand out as young professionals in interviews and other employer interactions, and when applying for internships or jobs.

The Embry-Riddle Center for Career and Professional Development, in collaboration with campus partners, offers students pathways to exploring and acquiring these skills and, importantly, helps students understand how to demonstrate and articulate these skills on resumes, and in interviews and other employer interactions.

Vision Statement

The vision of the Eagle Elevate program is to be intentional about offering all ERAU students the opportunity to learn about the importance of developing soft skills critical to professional success.

Competencies Employers Seek

• Professional Communication - Clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts and perspectives with persons inside and outside an organization.
• Critical Thinking - Identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information.
• Teamwork - Build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals.
• Professionalism - Knowing work environments differ greatly, demonstrating effective work habits and act in the interest of the large community and workplace.
• Leadership - Recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals.
• Equity & Inclusion - Demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures.
• Technology - Understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks and accomplish goals.
• Career & Self-Development - Awareness of one's strengths and weaknesses, navigating career opportunities and networking to build relationships.