Argosy University System is among the first institutions in a movement toward competency-based education, creating new models of direct assessment that promise to reduce time-to-degree and offer ...

Last year, I had the pleasure of visiting the campus of my alma mater, Eastern Illinois University, in rural Charleston, about 55 miles south of Urbana-Champaign. Not much had changed since I last ...

Every engineer deserves a clear growth path so they can understand, plan, and execute on meaningful career growth. Providing a framework for this growth (we call ours a competency matrix; it’s also ...

Thomas Fuller, an English churchman and historian from the 17th century once said, “All things are difficult before they are easy.” In fact, we know thanks to Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers that the ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

As work evolves, employers are looking beyond titles to find talent. The real question is: what are they looking for instead?

The most effective leaders possess certain characteristics. Business.com’s useful guide shows what traits employees need to ...

As a manager, I view it as my responsibility to provide every engineer with a realistic and achievable growth plan they can execute against. In that responsibility, I try to be fair and objective, ...