Why are our credentials important? 

A credential from Pole Star can mean the difference between being chosen, OR not... 

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Why Get Credentialed? 

Credentials are a viable solution to the challenges of upscaling workers and evaluating relevant attributes of potential professionals.

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PoLe Star Experiential Learning's Competencies have a home on the Credential Engine Registry™

Credential transparency empowers everyone looking for education and training options with the data they need to make a well-informed decision, enables employers to better evaluate the value of a credential’s ability to meet business needs, and allow organizations that service students, workers, employers and other stakeholders to provide clearer information about the value of various credentials. 

Through transparency, we help credential users search, discover and compare credentials to meet their needs, employers find both the workers and the education and training programs that meet their needs, and allow everyone to understand how credentials and careers connect to best prepare for the current and emerging workplace.

 Credential Engine’s mission is to bring transparency and literacy to all credentials in the marketplace. To fulfill that mission, we have built a cloud-based Credential Registry, which is designed to house common, searchable, and comparable information about all credentials – from diplomas, badges, and certificates to licenses, certifications and degrees of all types and levels. By using this Registry, students, credentialing bodies, employers, and more will have access to critical credentialing data needed to make decisions about both education and career. To find out more, please visit them on their website at  (www.credentialengine.org). 

Transparency in the credential marketplace is important.

It helps with the following...

Finding  and comparing credential options.


 

Discovering the credential data needed to evaluate its ability to meet needs.


 

Analyzing how credentials connect to each other and to the larger credential marketplace.


 

Understanding the credential process more clearly, as well as related processes such as quality assurance.


 

Our focus

 Pole Star Experiential Learning is focused on professional competencies that all candidates need for the highest success no matter what field of interest or job trade they may find themselves in. This is to help make each client that goes through our program career ready no matter the career sector, and because our curriculum is delivered via the internet, it is conveniently accessible to all.

 
Introducing our
core Career competencies 

Currently, each competency is categorized into three skill related groups to help interns identify which skills are needed most based on the desired area of interest. These groups consist of Business/Technical, Personal/Behavioral, and Interpersonal/Relational and are delivered through our curriculum we call the Professional Edge Platform©.

Planning for Action

Business and Technical
Core Career Competencies

Competent Workforce

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Accountability is perceiving responsibility for all of one’s work activities and personal actions while following through on commitments. Implements decisions that have been agreed upon while maintaining confidentiality with sensitive information. Acknowledges and learns from one’s mistakes without blaming others and recognizes the impact of one’s behavior on others and achieves results with little oversight. Ownership of one’s action is the expectation and norm for engaging with individuals across teams.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Project Management incorporates planning, organizing, and managing resources to produce successful completion of a project. Being able to manage one’s own time, set priorities, and attain resources to achieve goals.

DECISION-MAKING

Decision making utilizes sound judgment to formulate decisions based upon data that has been collected and evaluated. It involves assessing the importance, urgency, and risk associated with each situation and make timely, informed decisions that take into consideration the facts, goals, constraints, and options have been considered before deciding to utilize the most suitable action(s) that are in the best interest of the individual and/or organization.

PROFESSIONALISM

Professionalism is having the ability to exhibit and encourage the conduct and behaviors that are consistent with agency and governmental standards. To have the ability to assist others to be committed to furthering the organization’s objectives. 

IMPLEMENTATION/PLANNING

Planning/Implementation plans and organizes work activities while being able to manage several tasks at one time. Having the ability to coordinate ideas and resources to achieve goals. 

BUSINESS POLITICS

Business Politics utilizes the knowledge of the organizational culture and political climate to solve problems and accomplish both corporate and individual business goals.

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Business Application aligns the direction, products, services, and performance of a business line with the rest of the organization. Seeks ways to employ technology to optimize individual and organizational performance.

CRITICAL ANALYTIC THINKING

Critical Analytical Thinking is necessary for interpreting, breaking down, and analyzing complex data required to accomplish the activities of an organization. This is necessary to examine data to grasp issues, draw conclusions, and solve problems.

PROBLEM SOLVING

COMING SOON!

TECH PROFICIENCY

COMING SOON!

DIGITAL LITERACY

COMING SOON!

Work From Anywhere

Personal Behavior
Core Career Competencies
Certification

Coming Together
to
Make Change

INNOVATION (CREATIVE THINKING) 

Innovation which may also be referred to as Creative Thinking is the development of new opportunities, ideas, and solutions for problems by observing beyond current practices and utilizing innovative thinking to all types of workplace challenges.

PERSISTENCE/RESILIENCE

Resilience/Persistence is having the ability to adapt to change, while considering new approaches. Being accustomed to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities.

LEADERSHIP

Leadership is initiating responsibility for leading, directing and managing any organizational change. Being able to advocate organizational mission, goals, and has the ability to demonstrate how to achieve them.

BUSINESS ETHICS

Business Ethics utilizes integrity and respect within personal and organizational practices. It is comprised of respecting democratic, professional, ethical and individual values while constructing respectful, bilingual, diverse, and inclusive places of work. Ensuring decisions and transactions are transparent and rational. Earning the trust of others, respect through consistent honesty and professionalism; whereas, remaining accountable for all interactions.

STRESS MANAGEMENT

Stress Management is to achieve better outcomes, both at work and in one’s personal life that can be attained by realistically organizing time and utilizing self-management habits that may assist in leading to increased productivity on and off of the job. Being able to maintain efficiently attain composure in highly stressful or adverse situations.  

CAREER MOTIVATION

COMING SOON!

HUMILITY

COMING SOON!

SELF-EFFICACY

COMING SOON!

SELF-MANAGEMENT

COMING SOON!

TIME MANAGEMENT

COMING SOON!

G.R.I.T.

COMING SOON!

INNOVATION

COMING SOON!

"Teamwork makes the dream work!"

Relational Core Career Competency Certification

"Let's Do This!"

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION

Effective communication is the ability to express oneself clearly and effectively when speaking and/or writing to individuals or groups while being able to listen attentively ensuring that the information is comprehended by all parties. Information is shared in a timely manner, utilizing the most appropriate method to convey ideas and facts orally using language the audience will best understand.

HUMAN RELATIONS

Human relations develop and maintain effective relationships with others while relating well with others from varied backgrounds and within different situations. Is able to express understanding, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness. Encourages constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect.

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional Intelligence or EQ is the ability to be aware of, understand, express, and control one's emotional reactions as well as understand and interpret the emotional responses of others with empathy. It involves being self-aware, as well as being aware of, and interpreting body language and voice inflections in others. EQ utilizes additional competencies; effective communication, ethics, and critical thinking and improves professionalism and human relation competency skills. EQ also works to support stress management and resiliency skills.

PERSUASION/NEGOTIATION

Negotiation/Persuasion is understanding the necessity for change and helps plan for and accommodate it as creatively and positively, as possible. Being able to attain deals and/or comprises on an individual basis. 

COACHABILITY

Coachability is being able to empower co-workers to grow and succeed through feedback, instruction, and encouragement.

TEAMWORK

COMING SOON!

DIVERSITY

COMING SOON!

INSPIRATION

COMING SOON!

MENTORSHIP

COMING SOON!

SOCIAL PRESENCE 

COMING SOON!

PRIVACY

COMING SOON!

Why  

do these skills matter?

Companies are increasingly focusing on leveraging human capital as a competitive advantage. To achieve business success, organizations expect their employees to perform at higher levels, to be more customer-responsive, process-oriented, involved in shared leadership, and contributing knowledge that adds value to an organization’s capabilities.

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