Professional profile – virtual CV
Some data referring to studies as well as acknowledged diplomas placed in Professional profile tab is downloaded directly from University Study-Oriented System (refers to Universities using USOS system). Remaining data should be completed individually.
Why is it worth to complete the profile?
By completing Professional profile tab you may:
- You may generate and download CV in PDF or RTF format (to be edited in any word processor)
- Career Advisors may send information about new offers as well as trainings to selected candidates with particular skills (e.g. ability to speak specified language or use computer programme) or entitlements (vocational entitlements, driving license).
- Precisely completed profiles enable Career Advisors to send notifications about specific offers (e.g. with required specific programming language ) to selected candidates.
- Even if you are studying philology and you did not mark level of possessed language skills in your profile, you may be omitted in search results initiated by Career Advisor or a recruiter.
- Employers may browse shared professional profiles of candidates. More detailed profiles will be easier found and will be placed higher in search results.
It is worth to describe and update data included in the profile, especially those mentioned below:
- level of language skills,
- level of computer programming skills,
- vocational entitlements,
- professional experience,
- courses and trainings
Professional competences
Competence is a resultant of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Competences developed in a proper way allow employees to realize professional tasks on required level.
Description of competences based on the Model of Professional Competences prepared by the Career Centre of The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Model of Professional Competences consists of six basic groups of competences. There are four key descriptive competences:
Capability |
Competences describing mainly the way of thinking - searching and collecting data, analyzing information, drawing conclusions and forwarding them to the surroundings.
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Motivation
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Group of competences referring to indicators which motivate us to act in the first place and to the level of engagement in task realization, determining why and with what intensity a person is willing to work.
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Resistance
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Competences specifying one’s ability to work in difficult conditions under widely understood stress (connected with both internal and external indicators, including those referring to social relations).
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Tools |
Bank of competences concentrated on the level of usage of particular methods and tools, aiming in increasing work efficiency (planning time, organizing work, coordinating tasks) as well as achieving complicated goals with a support of a team (delegation of duties, management).
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Tasks |
Competences describing the way of tasks realization - orientation on achieving aims and quality of work effects.
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People |
Group of competences describing how a particular person cooperates with others, builds and makes use of interpersonal relations during realization of business goals.
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MOTIVATING OTHERS |
skilful motivating of colleagues to increase their efforts and achieve targets |
ANALITICAL THINKING |
perceiving of numerous aspects of reality, effective work with a lot of information, perceiving of relationships and drawing reliable conclusions from data available |
FOCUS ON BUSINESS |
searching for business opportunities and making decisions connected with risk and oriented on profitability of undertakings on the basis of the current knowledge about the market, competition and calculated risk |
STRESS TOLERANCE |
acting effectively in hard conditions (heavy workload, conflict, high requirements) |
WORK ORGANIZATION |
managing one’s own time and organising one’s own work in a planned and systematic manner, which makes it possible to achieve targets |
FOCUS ON TARGET |
persistent aiming at a company’s targets by realisation of individual targets (title) and achieving best results by planning, constructive approach to problems and searching for opportunities to exceed targets |
FOCUS ON CUSTOMER |
awareness and understanding of customers’ needs and fulfilling as well as exceeding of their expectations. If necessary, active searching for and acquisition of new customers for a company |
PLANNING AND COORDINATION |
clear setting of priorities and tasks for all team members and consistent coordination of the same by dividing complex tasks into stages, determining of needs as well as ensuring of adequate means and support in realisation |
TEAM WORK |
establishing and maintaining of long-term and fruitful cooperation with other employees |
PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE AND ETHICS |
building of one’s own and company’s reliability by undertaking activities, which comply with one’s own ethic standards and company’s ethic standards as well as accepted standards of work |
SELF-RELIANCE |
ability to achieve agreed targets on one’s own, including, making necessary decisions |
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS AND PRECISION |
focusing on best performance of a given activity, taking care of details and high effects of work (products, services etc.) |
LEARNING AND TRAINING |
readiness and ability to convey one’s knowledge to others in an effective manner as well as share one’s experience with others |
PERSISTENCE AND CONSISTENCY |
timely and consistent realisation of tasks entrusted, including difficult and monotonous tasks |
COMMITMENT |
activeness and showing one’s initiative, determination to overcome difficulties and readiness to sacrifice, if necessary |
TEAM MANAGEMENT |
creation and management of teams, understanding of their needs and motivating them for most effective activities |
Download definitions of professional competences as PDF.
Evaluate professional competences on scale 1-3, where:
- Level 1 (good) – acting in a correct direction however requiring support, stimulus, outside help; lack of independence in acting
- Level 2 (optimal) – independent usage of knowledge and skills, efficient and effective performance, pursuit and achievement of goals
- Level 3 (expert) – helping, supporting, inspiring, crossing borders, improving work, creating new methods of performance
The moment you graduate your competences may be specified probably on level 1 or 2. Expert level can usually be achieved after some time of professional activity. It characterizes people who possess a fully developed competence, additionally helping others in improving it.
FAQ
- Graph on the first webpage section informs about the level of profile completion.
- When particular column in the profile cannot be completed (e.g. PhD thesis) you should tick off does not refer field.
