OSU Grad Advantage
Go beyond your field of study and gain the skills you need to excel in your next career with OSU Grad Advantage.
OSU Grad Advantage provides students a self-assessment tool to gauge their current level in five core competencies and provides opportunities for improvement.
Currently enrolled graduate students and postdocs:
For all others:
Question, comment or suggestion? Please get in touch. We plan on growing OSU Grad Advantage in select areas in the near future.
Check out events at OSU that will grow your knowledge and expertise in each the Core Compencies.
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Core Competency
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Transferable Skills
- Build an inclusive educational and professional culture
- Engage in respectful cross-cultural communication
- Actively participate in education on anti-racism
- Commit to ongoing learning related to JEDI
- Creating an Inclusive Community training
- Community Dialogues
- Community for the Advancement of Antiracist Instruction ([email protected])
- Dialogue Facilitation Lab
- Social Justice Education Initiative
- Social Justice Retreats
- Cultural Resource Centers
- Alternative Break experiences
- Ethnic Studies graduate courses
- Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies graduate courses
- GRAD 542: The Inclusive Classroom: Difference, Power and Discrimination
- OSU Search Advocate Program
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Core Competency
Mentoring, Facilitation and Teaching
Transferable Skills
1. Build and maintain productive relationships as a mentor and mentee
2. Be an effective advocate for themselves and others
3. Facilitate interactions and uncomfortable conversations between groups and teams centered on developing, assessing and attaining goals
4. Effectively and purposefully teach in formal and non-formal environments
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Core Competency
Writing and Communication
Transferable Skills
1. Articulate ideas effectively in writing
2. Articulate ideas effectively orally
3. Use digital media and visual resources effectively
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Core Competency
Leadership, Management and
Professional DevelopmentTransferable Skills
1. Engage in professional development, continuous education, and commitment to life-long learning
2. Guide, coordinate, and contribute to teamwork
3. Develop and engage in productive and professional interpersonal relationships
4. Work effectively with people of varying skill levels and different backgrounds
5. Effectively and ethically manage projects
6. Develop and practice healthy personal-professional balance
7. Engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship
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Core Competency
Interpretation and Use of Research
Transferable Skills
1. Access, evaluate, and appropriately use existing research to inform action
- Thesis or dissertation research and projects
- OSU Library Workshops
- OSU Library Research Guides
- Research Office
2. Engage in rigorous original data collection, analysis and problem solving
- Thesis or dissertation research and projects
- OSU Library Workshops
- Short Format Statistical Consulting
- Statistics (ST) courses