Practice Guide: Professionalism
Find your story and draft it, one step at a time.
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Professionalism
A story about following through, owning a mistake, or being someone others could count on.
Professionalism is about how you show up: following through, taking responsibility, managing your time and commitments, acting ethically, and communicating with care. Think of a moment when you showed reliability, integrity, or accountability in a real situation.
This is practice, and it isn't graded. Draft your story here, see how long it runs out loud, then record it or copy it into the matching STAR(T) Stories portal in Blackboard.
Find your story
Your story can come from school, work, family, or your community. It doesn't have to be dramatic. It has to be real, and yours.
Your Mile Markers may already hold a story worth telling.
Questions to help you find it:
- Was there a time you met a deadline or commitment even when it was hard?
- Have you ever owned a mistake, taken responsibility for something that went wrong, and handled it well?
- Is there a moment when you juggled competing responsibilities and made deliberate choices about priorities?
- Was there a time when doing the right thing was harder than taking the easy way out?
Draft it, one step at a time
Your draft saves in this browser as you go. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ask it to help you find your story, not to write it: "Don't write my response for me. Help me find it." Your story has to sound like you.