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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:

  • Written communication: Professional branding
  • Interviewing: How to sell yourself
  • Networking: Seeking opportunities
  • Etiquette/professionalism: Professional conduct
  • Experience: Demonstrate competency and value

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

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
John Carroll University
Office: (216) 397-1763
rstein@jcu.edu

Chelsea Donovan

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

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