2025 Competency Symposium

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025
Time: 10:45 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual
Fee: $129 (member); $199 (nonmember); FREE (HBCUs)

Lead the way in career readiness

Career readiness momentum is building. Just one year since the NACE Competency Assessment Tool launch, campuses nationwide are integrating career readiness into curriculum, programs, and partnerships. And it's making a big impact.  

Get a front row seat to hear how others transformed student success this year. Choose from over 25 sessions to help you develop new career readiness strategies, and bring skills development to life at your campus or organization.


Session recordings + all presenter-provided handouts are available to registrants in the Zoom platform through January 13th.

Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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Innovation Partners

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Product Showcase

Landit.AI
Protopia

Competency Champions

Auburn University
University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Program Themes

Competency Assessment

Hear how others across the nation are assessing career readiness competencies in innovative and impactful ways, whether in the curriculum, in co-curricular engagements and activities, or in the workplace. 

Employer Insights

Discover how employers are using the NACE Competencies to connect to college talent, align with higher education partners, and upskill early career employees.

Competency Integration (Program and Curriculum)

Hear how faculty, or faculty and career services pairs, are developing innovative curricular integrations of NACE competency development and related career thinking into the classroom.

Campus Expansion

Get strategies for moving career readiness from the sidelines to an integrated, scaffolded part of the student experience. Learn to develop a vision and plan for scaling competency implementation across your campus.

What is Career Readiness?

Explore the NACE Competencies and download resources for your org.

See more on NACEWeb

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