Career Center

Technology

You demonstrate this competency when you:

Use technologies responsibly and ethically.
Adapt tools to meet changing needs.
Create projects and express ideas through digital tools. For example: Design a website, create a brochure, use spreadsheets, write a blog, create an app or game, or write an algorithm.
Maintain confidentiality of data and information.
Streamline processes and/or improve efficiency by using technology.
Use media channels and tools to engage with specific audiences, e.g., MyEmma, SLACK, SEO, Social Pilot, etc.
Use general and/or specific technology skills to troubleshoot and solve problems.
Manage technology to integrate information to support relevant, effective, and timely decision-making.
Ability to identify training resources to learn new or unfamiliar technologies.
Manipulate information, construct ideas, and use technology to achieve strategic goals.

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

You have just been assigned to a project involving new technology. How would you get started?
Tell me about a time when you had to explain a technical concept to someone who was unfamiliar with it.
Tell me about a time when you used technology to streamline and improve a process.

What are some ideas of ways you can continue to develop your competency in technology?

Take a computer class at CC.
Get a campus job where you will use technology.
Volunteer through the CCE to help a non-profit organization that needs help with technology.
Learn a computer language through a free class like CodeAcademy.
Complete a micro project through an organization like ParagonOne.
Get involved in a data science competition platform like Kaggle.