Build your skills

What skills do you bring to the table? At Co-op and Career, we use a competency-based model to help you assess your learning, identify any gaps and market your skills for a better chance at landing the opportunities you want!
Understand your competencies
- Learn what competencies are (and why they're valuable!)
- Measure your current competency level
- Describe your competencies in competency statements
- Identify your competency gaps
Learn about competencies to develop
- 10 core competencies (valuable in all workplaces)
- Program-specific competencies (developed through your academic program)
- Cultural Intelligence (CQ) competencies (applied in today's culturally diverse world)
- Professional competencies (valued in your future career)
Explore other certifications and training
- Learn about common certifications that employers ask for and where to get them
Download the worksheets from this section
- Understanding and
using competencies - 10 core
competencies - Program specific
competencies - Cultural Intelligence
(CQ) competencies
- What is a competency?
- Where to develop competencies
- How to express your competencies
- Competency assessment worksheet
- Sample competency assessment
- Competency statement worksheet
- Action verb list
- All about competencies