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The Six Professional Competencies

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Professional competencies are knowledge, skills, and abilities that will equip you for success in the workplace and lifelong career management.

Developing professional competencies is a lifelong process. You are likely already developing many of these through your coursework, research activities, internships, or volunteer experiences.

There are many opportunities throughout Stanford to help you grow and develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities - browse the competencies to see what events can help!

These competencies are:

Interrelated - you may see similar language under different competencies, or think they could be organized in different ways. That’s OK!

Non-linear - explore competencies in any order, and choose which ones to spend more time developing, based on your own needs.

Transferable - relevant no matter your degree, discipline, or career goals.