Get Career Ready From Home
The Career Center’s Praxis Summer Program is a free comprehensive, self-guided summer career program designed to help Boston College students of any major recognize and develop the skills most highly sought after by employers. You have been developing these critical skills throughout your time at Boston College, both in and outside the classroom. This week-by-week guide will help you reflect on and strengthen these skills in order to give you a competitive advantage when applying to jobs and graduate school in the future.
Details
Complete the program on your own schedule
The eight-week program will be available via Canvas. It is designed to be completed on your own schedule at your own pace. While you are encouraged to work through the full program, we recommend that you identify the two to three skills you most want to develop and focus your energy there.
In addition to strengthening specific career skills, upon completion of the Praxis Summer Program, you will be able to:
- Identify at least one career field that aligns with your interests that you would like to further explore.
- Identify at least one skill you hope to incorporate into your career paths that aligns with the skills employers are seeking in recent college graduates.
- Articulate your experiences, skills, interests, and values in application materials such as resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles, and personal statements.
- Verbally explain how your experiences, skills, interests, and values relate to opportunities of interest.
- Articulate 1-3 next steps in your career discernment and planning.
Upon completion of the program, you will be able to add this experience to your resume to showcase the skills you gained.
Week-by-Week ScheduleThere are approximately four to five required tasks for each weekly module. Most tasks will take 20 minutes to one hour. In addition, there are more in-depth optional activities for those skills you want to spend more time developing. |
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Week 1 | Know Yourself: Start Where You Are and Discover Where to GoExample Activities:
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Week 2 | Effective CommunicationExample Activities:
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Week 3 | Working Across Cultures and DifferencesExample Activities:
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Week 4 | Leveraging TechnologyExample Activities:
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Week 5 | Teamwork and CollaborationExample Activities:
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Week 6 | Leading EffectivelyExample Activities:
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Week 7 | Critical Thinking and Problem SolvingExample Activities:
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Week 8 | What it Means to be a ProfessionalExample Activities:
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