It is important to think about the process you go through when acquiring new knowledge and qualifications, both during your study and outside the university. Companies are very much interested in hearing how you work with specific tasks and how you solve the different challenges you come across in your life. Your future employer is hiring you - not your university diploma.
Therefore, it is important to be able to describe how you approach and work with different tasks.
Test your knowledge and qualifications in practice
The best way to familiarize yourself with how to use the acquired knowledge and qualifications from your education is to test them out in a practical setting. Something that can already be done during your studies. You can do voluntary work, project work, or find yourself a student job. By exploring your career opportunities outside of the university, you automatically create and strengthen your professional network.
You can divide your qualifications into three types:
Your competencies
You acquire the general academic competencies when you work with different academic challenges and tools. In your study, it is often not the product you are judged on, but rather whether you are able to critically relate to and reflect on the process you have been through. Including how you have specifically approached challenges towards the product.
What are your general academic competencies?
With your education, you achieve the following general academic competencies:
- be able to delimit, define and analyze an academic problem using relevant academic theories and methods
- be able to systematize complex knowledge and data as well as select and prioritize matters that are significant to the topic
- be able to critically evaluate the various theories and methods of the subject
- have a precise and consistent application of concepts and be able to engage in dialogue and argue on a basic theoretical basis
- take a critical stand on sources and document them
- convey professional issues and solution models so that it becomes relevant and understandable for different target groups
- be able to handle complex and development-oriented situations and enter into a collaboration, including being able to receive and give constructive criticism
- be able to work independently, disciplined, structured and purposeful, including also being able to meet deadlines and formalities
You can read more about your general academic competencies in your curriculum.
The subject specific competences are the competences that are unique to your programme. They are what separates your professional profile from other programmes’ profiles.
If you would like a career doing research or teaching in your field, you will be using the subject specific competences, among others.
In your curriculum it’s described that the goal of your programme is that you, as a International Business Administration and Foreign Languages, have attained a selection of competences within the social sciences and the humanities. These qualify you to work in internationally oriented businesses and organisations or institutions in both the private and public sector.
After completing your programme you will be able to do comparative analysis and assessments of linguistic and business economic challenges linked to international activities, and in continuation hereof develop and implement action plans and manage internal and external communication.
In addition to your insight in business economics, you will have knowledge about cultural and socio-economic matters and their influence on linguistic and business economic challenges, as well as knowledge about psychological and communicative aspects and their influence on dissemination of a message to different target audiences.
Finally, you are able to express yourself both written and verbally in your two foreign languages Danish/German and English.
Your personal competences are about the way you approach a task and how you approach human relationships. For example, you may be particularly good at collaborating, making decisions or working in a structured way.
Your personal competences thus describe your qualities as a person, which has a great influence on how you carry out your work and how you collaborate with others.
It is a good idea to practice putting your personal skills into words. Once you are clarified, you are more attractive to a potential employer. You can better present yourself and assess whether a type of job or workplace is right for you.
Employers are often also at least as interested in hearing about who you are and what motivates you as what you have read.
What are your personal competences?
You can consider how you typically approach a task and approach collaboration as it will tell something about your personal competences. Try to do the following exercise concretely:
Exercise
Think back to the last time you participated in a project work:
- How did you approach the process from the start?
- What went well?
- What went less well?
- What personal competencies in you were the reason for the things that went well?
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