The Skills Advantage: From Campus to Career

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FGCU's Quality Enhancement Plan Approved February 2025


Percentages of employers seeking skilled employeesWhich skills help college students achieve career success? Ask employers, and you’ll get two answers. Specialized skills for a particular job are important, yes; but in a survey 84% of employers rated core skills like communication, teamwork or critical thinking just as important as specialized skills!

We call these Transferable Skills, because they are applicable to all kinds of careers and workplace tasks. The Skills Advantage is an initiative to help FGCU students gain transferable skills in college, get recognized for them, and leverage their core skills for career success.

FGCU offers students a powerful tool to make their core skills visible: Transferable Skill Badges. Students document their path to learning the skill in a portfolio; then an interview experience teaches them how to communicate their skill set to employers.

Link to Transferable Skills registration page

Student interviewing with possible employer at the FGCU Career Fair

From Campus to Career…

The Skills Advantage is building a culture of core skills at FGCU - where transferable skills are recognized, valued, and put to work to help students achieve good career outcomes:

  • Badges  will give employers better evidence of students’ skill sets and students more confidence talking with employers
  • Faculty will embed core skills right into their regular courses, and help students get started on badges. 
  • Employers will interview students for the badges and provide networking opportunities. 
  • Students from all majors will enter the job market with skills that last a lifetime.

Learn more about how To get involved

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