Career Center

Equity and Inclusion

You demonstrate this competency when you:

Implement strategies to recognize personal biases.
Learn from, respect, and value diverse cultures, races, ages, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Incorporate global/cultural awareness into your personal life and professional work.
Adapt your language and behavior with others in a manner that conveys respect and builds trust and rapport.
Strategically leverage differences to come up with more innovative solutions.
Demonstrate sensitivity; relate to others with empathy and understanding.
Display self-reflective awareness of your role in diverse communities.
Actively seek to understand and respect the diversity and complexity of human identities.
Actively promote equity and inclusion.
Demonstrate ethical judgment and work towards a just society.
Actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism.

Employers/Graduate programs may seek demonstration of this competency through behavioral interview questions like:

Describe a time you adjusted your communication to effectively collaborate with people from different backgrounds and identities.
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with conflicting cultural or political views on an issue.
Tell me about a time when you worked on a diverse team.

What are some ideas of ways you can continue to develop your competency in Equity and Inclusion?

Solicit and use feedback from people with multiple cultural perspectives.
Engage in conversation and dialogue around identities and cultures different than your own.
Identify resources and engage in your own personal learning and development about your identity and identities different from your own.
Join a multicultural student organization.
Participate in an off-campus study opportunity.