Ashland Community & Technical College System
Career Exploration and Experience
The Career Exploration and Experience badge certifies that students have successfully engaged in activities designed to explore careers within their chosen fields. This preparation process includes attending a professionalism and leadership workshop to acquire essential workplace interaction skills, completing on-boarding documentation, and receiving ...
Career Networking and Integrated Learning
The Career Networking & Integration badge certifies that students have successfully demonstrated applied and integrated learning by articulating and applying content from their academic preparation to their chosen career. Graduates will also show the ability to responsibly use information for decision-making. The preparation process includes ...
Community Engagement
The Community Engagement badge certifies that students have successfully demonstrated the ability to interact effectively across diverse cultures and actively participate in their communities. This certification recognizes students who have engaged in activities that promote cultural understanding and social responsibility. Through workshops, community ...
Community Leadership
The Community Leadership Badges is awarded to students who successfully participated and engaged professionally during the community service activity day at Ashland Community and Technical College. This activity asked students to perform successfully using the following 10 essential skills:
Adaptable Leadership
Professional Performance
Civic ...
Critical Thinking
Badge recipients have been able to demonstrate the following critical thinking traits at a level of proficiency or higher:
Thinking critically to solve problems and generate new ideas and solutions.
Evaluate assumptions and assess information to make informed conclusions.
Think creatively by combining ideas in original ...
Interview Ready
The Interview Ready badge certifies that students have successfully completed activities to prepare them for mock interviews. The process includes professional documents and interview preparedness workshops. They must have an approved resume through career services, wardrobe counseling, and "elevator speech" preparation. The final activity demonstrates ...
Post-Secondary Work Ready Certificate
At Ashland Community and Technical College, essential skills are much more than buzz words on a resume. The ACTC Career Services Department, Northeast KY Chamber of Commerce, and the ACTC Advisory Committees share an understanding of what is needed to develop and launch a successful career.
The Post-Secondary Work Ready Certificate is a self-initiated ...Post-Secondary Work Ready Certificiation
At Ashland Community and Technical College, essential skills are much more than buzz words on a resume. The ACTC
Career Services Department, Northeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, and the ACTC Advisory Committees share an understanding of what is needed to develop and launch a successful career.
The Post-Secondary Work Ready Certificate ...Quantitative Reasoning
The Quantitative Reasoning badge is awarded to individuals who successfully demonstrate competency in a required math, accounting, or other financial skill course.
Successful recipients of this essential skill will be able to demonstrate the following:
Apply quantitative reasoning skills to analyze and solve numerical problems. ...