Quality Assurance Commons / Essential Employability Qualities

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Students in the University of Kentucky Accounting program will develop EEQs throughout their coursework. The EEQs are employability characteristics that are critical skills and qualities for all future professionals to possess in the modern workforce. These skills reflect a need for students to be adaptable, continuously learn, and possess social and emotional intelligence necessary for workforce preparedness and lifelong learning. The EEQs are as follows:

Communication	Learning
Thinking & Problem Solving	Inquiry
Collaboration	Responsibility & Professionalism
Adaptability	Ethical

In addition to students taking courses preparing them for public and private accounting, business and industry positions, and jobs within universities and government agencies, students enrolled in the Accounting program will obtain EEQs to prepare for them for 21^st century workplace responsibilities.

Essential Employability Qualities

Communicators	Graduates can express ideas and information coherently in writing, orally, interpersonally, and in presentations. They participate in discussions by listening actively and responding constructively while demonstrating competence in engaging with others from cultural backgrounds.
Thinkers and Problem Solvers	Graduates apply critical and creative thinking skills to identify and address complex work-related problems and apply quantitative, financial, data, and technical fluency and demonstrate cultural competence. Graduates demonstrate the ability to understand concepts and perspectives across disciplines and cultures.
Inquirers	Graduates conduct inquiry and research by reviewing, evaluating, verifying, citing, and applying information and perspectives to address work-based problems both independently and collaboratively.
Collaborators	Graduates collaborate with others both in person and virtually and seek a range of points of view, are willing to modify their perspectives, and help resolve conflicts where appropriate. They exhibit multicultural competence in working with others.
Adaptable	Graduates approach new and uncertain situations with openness. They explore, learn, and apply new roles, ideas, perspectives, approaches, tools, technologies, and strategies to support their effective contributions. Graduates can work effectively across a variety of environments, cultures, and perspectives.
Principled and Ethical	Graduates make reasoned, ethical decisions about work-based situations or problems. Graduates act equitably and with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness and respect for individuals, groups, and broadly diverse communities.
Responsible and Professional	Graduates establish priorities and manage their time to meet the obligations of work assignments with minimal supervision or direction. They carry out their responsibilities consistently, persistently, and reliably. Graduates take responsibility for their actions and the consequences that accompany them.
Learners	Graduates adopt new technologies and strategies for working more effectively, analyzing work-based situations, and making decisions by engaging in formal and informal professional learning opportunities continually and actively apply learning to work.

The EEQs are obtained by students through engagement in coursework, participating in extracurricular activities, engaging with career services, and taking on internships.

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Undergraduate ACCOUNTING MAJORS December 2017 and May 2018 Graduates
Companies that Hired (Selected Listing)
*based on student reporting

Accenture LLC	Andover Management	Auditor of Public Accounts
BKD CPAs and Advisers	Beam Suntory	Blackhawk Mining
Cobec Consulting	Crowe	Dean Dorton Allen Ford
Deloitte	Deloitte Consulting	Digium, Inc.
Enderle & Romans, LLC	Ernst & Young (EY)	Grant Thornton LLP
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)	Humana	JLL
KPMG	Liberty Mutual Insurance	LMBC
McCormick + Co.	MCM CPAs and Auditors	Myers and Stauffer LC
Neuberger Berman	Owensboro Health	PwC
Raymond James Financial	Wells Fargo	Wheeler Financial Solutions

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Quality Assurance Commons / Essential Employability Qualities

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