Universities
ASPIRE. ENGAGE. ELEVATE.
According to a 2016 report by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), the Preparation of US graduate students is too narrowly focused on academic research skills, at the expense of professional skills such as communications, teamwork, mentoring, and leadership.
| Institutional Challenges | Benefits of Professional Steps |
|---|---|
| New Grad hires are typically focused on STEM specific subjects. | Professional Steps augments workforce development to a corporate standard. |
| New Grad hires require additional training in professional development (e.g., soft skills). | Professional Steps targets those management skill gaps that employers minimally expect. |
| Most human resource training is resource constrained. | Professional Steps uses EduCredits where employers can purchase EduCredits block increments with volume discount pricing. |
| Today’s employees require flexible availability in professional training to meet their dynamic schedule needs. | Professional Steps can flex to your schedule, day or night, accessible 24/7. |
| New hires must adjust to a change in working environment- moving from independent thought-provoking academia to corporate objectives and a compliance driven environment. | Professional Steps bridges this change by offering soft skills and professional development training to succesfully work in today’s business environment. |
| Classroom-based training has become inconvenient and expensive. | Review Professional Steps training content on your choice of device. |
- The study included surveys of over 900 university deans, STEM faculty, and professional
development staff at 226 institutions; interviews with employers from across the STEM workforce; and
a workshop of industry leaders, federal science agencies, entrepreneurs, graduate deans, researchers,
and recent PhDs and postdocs. Two of the primary recommendations included:
- Increasing efforts to ensure professional development experiences provided to advanced STEM graduate students are relevant to employers.
- Employers seek broad “transferable skills” combining advanced STEM degrees with professional management skills including data science and big data skills; science policy; governance, risk, and compliance; and time-management, project-management, and budget management.
- Professional Steps delivers priced-at-scale training, serving both individuals and organizations on soft skills – creating additional value within your staff. Our Training as a Service (TraaS) is accessible 24/7 across the globe, on your phone, your laptop, or handheld tablet or wireless monitor.
- Professional Steps offers a flexible approach to institutional pricing using EduCredits, including volume EduCredit discounts.