UNLV Career Handbook - Magazine - Page 6
SUCCESS SKILLS
Success skills: Setting yourself up for success in your
career and in life.
By identifying your unique expertise and abilities, you
are distinguishing yourself as a skilled candidate and
developing your professional brand.
IDENTIFYING YOUR SKILLS
Understanding how you interact with the world around you
and in what ways you perform best in situations. By knowing
your skills, you will be able to grow as a well-rounded
individual ready for success in many areas of life, one being
your career. Overall, as a UNLV student or alumni, you will
acquire a competitive edge in building a successful career
while creating a ful昀椀lling life through our Career Readiness
& Life Design badges. Using tools such as self-assessments
and personal skills inventory, you may narrow your decisions
based on career compatibility and skill sets.
Upskilling — Bridging the Skills Gap
For those unfamiliar with the term, the “skills gap” is the divide
between the skills employers expect employees to have and
the skills employees and job seekers actually possess. To
bridge this gap, UNLV partnered with LinkedIn Learning and
developed a pathway for Rebels to acquire and demonstrate
pro昀椀ciency in the most sought-after skills with our Career
Readiness & Life Design badges.
Badges
In the Career Readiness & Life Design program, you can
earn digital badges in various career-related areas. Earning
digital badges demonstrates that you possess the essential
professional skills to land your dream job or show off your
new skills to your current or future employer. You can 昀椀nd the
Career Competencies & Life Design badges by logging in to
WebCampus at it.unlv.edu/webcampus and clicking on the
Student Resources button.
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CAREER HANDBOOK
CAREER READINESS & LIFE DESIGN
Career Readiness and Life Design is a program to help all
students and alumni navigate their career and life choices. It
uses design thinking concepts such as empathizing, ideating,
and testing to address common career planning challenges.
Career and life design encourages exploration without fear of
failure and reframing mindsets that keep you from pursuing
your goals.
Career Readiness & Life Design allows students to consider
the following:
• Exploring possible educational and career paths with
curiosity at the forefront.
• Examining what is uniquely important to you in your
life, including your values, interests, attributes, and
enjoyable activities. Look at options and test career
possibilities in the way an entrepreneur would prototype
or test a new concept.
• Creating pathways that build upon skills and experiences
and that lead to a rewarding career and ful昀椀lling life.
• Focusing on experiential learning, internships, and
micro-internships that open new opportunities.
• Connecting to a community of support to ensure your
career success.
Life design is generative and allows students to be curious,
re昀氀ect on who they are, and explore possibilities related to
their purpose. It is a process that will reveal new outcomes
by writing about experiences, looking at life’s positives, and
gaining information from others and their insights.
Career Services & Workforce Development utilizes the
book “Designing Your Life“ by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Its guiding principles in昀氀uence our work with our students
and alumni.
