Boler Professional Development

BPD Goals

Prepare you with the necessary skills and confidence to enter the workforce
Provide you with a competitive advantage with employers
Position you for your first choice in a career upon graduation

Competency-Based Professional Skills

The four-year course timeline enhances students’ professional skills in the following competencies:

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Boler Professional Development Required Coursework

Your Professional Development Journey

Designed to prepare you with the basic skills to start your journey of professional development. Topics include creating a resume, creating a LinkedIn profile, StrengthsFinder, and email etiquette.

Networking and Introduction to Interviewing

Learn how to network while gaining an introduction to interviewing. Topics include transferable skills, creating an elevator pitch, and writing a cover letter.

Advanced Interviewing Skills and Getting Hired

Continue to put your professional skills into practice; build upon professional experience; practice behavioral-based interviewing with mock interviews. Topics include updating your resume and LinkedIn, creating a career plan, mock interviewing, mentorship, and how to get the most out of an internship and/or job.

Living Inspired

Understand the next steps after accepting your job offer, emotional intelligence, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, financial literacy, and navigating your first 90 days of employment. If you have not yet received a job offer, this course will cont

What To Expect

Preparing you, one step at a time.

Self-discovery, awareness, and planning.

Online Reputation
Professional Conduct
Strengths Finder
Linkedin Profile
Résumé Writing
Professional Speaker Series

Build and develop professional skills and capabilities.

Business Etiquette
Meet the Recruiters
Network for Success
Employer Visit Day
Informational Interviews
Finding an Internship
Elevator Pitch
Professional Speaker Series

Put professional skills into practice through learned experiences.

Interviewing skills
Mock Interview
Meet the Recruiters
Career-Related Membership
Building a Network
Résumés, LinkedIn, and Cover Letters
Employer Visit Day
Professional Speaker Series

Prepare for the transition from college to a career.

Seek out Job Opportunities
Turn Your Internship into a Job
Meet the Recruiters
Negotiating an Offer
Applying to Graduate School
Transitioning from College to a Career
Professional Speaker Series

Program Overview
Resume writing
LinkedIn
Networking
Phone Interview
Professional etiquette and communication
Interviewing
Informational Interview
Professional experiences: Internships, externships and co-ops
Job offers and negotiations
On-boarding and the first 90 days
Lifelong career success and strategy

Throughout your career, you will continue to learn about your leadership virtues and deepen your appreciation for how a Jesuit business education helps to form your ethical and spiritual inner compass (regardless of your religious or non-religious affiliation), and prepares you to lead a business in a manner consistent with human purpose and dignity.

CONTACT US

Robert Stein

Executive in Residence; Leadership Development Program
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Office: (216) 397-1763
rstein@jcu.edu

Chelsea Donovan

M.Ed. Program Manager, Boler Professional Development
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cdonovan@jcu.edu

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