2017 MSOE Career Guide

The Professional Development Transcript (PDT) is a tool provided by the MSOE Career Services Department to help you plan and keep track of your skills and experiences. In addition to your technical background, employers look for the following skills:

 Critical thinking/problem solving

 Communication

 Leadership

 Ability to work in a team

 Relationships

 Comfort with diversity

 Global interactions

The purpose of the PDT is to have you do an ongoing self-assessment, identify strengths and challenges, and serve as a guide to develop strategies to improve in these seven skill areas enhancing your overall professional development. It is a self-generated and maintained document that you can use to prepare for interviews for employment or acceptance to graduate school.

The PDT will allow you to:

1) Select activities or experiences you have been involved in

2) Identify the skills related to that activity

3) Reflect and record how you developed or applied those skills

Create and access your Professional Development Transcript at https://resources.msoe.edu/pdt

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