The We Track: Team & Chapter Leadership
Turning Leadership Experience into Career Skills
- About this session
- A summit session on translating leadership experience into career language. This readout is based on the slides photographed in the room.
- What the session explored
- A “Bridge the Languages” slide paired chapter and campus language with what an employer can hear. Another slide, “The Opportunity: Leadership Experience and Career Translation,” cited employer survey data (NACE Job Outlook 2026 update) showing employers rate skills such as teamwork, professionalism and critical thinking as highly important. Those figures are the source’s findings, not outcomes of NSLS members.
- Kimberly’s reflection
- Leadership practice becomes more useful when we can explain its contribution: what changed because we led, not just the title we held.
- For a new member
- Start a simple record of what you do in your chapter and what came of it. It becomes the raw material for résumés and interviews.
- Illustrative example
- A chapter role such as running check-in could be described to an employer as evidence of communication, teamwork and follow-through.
- Written for this readout — not a speaker quote, slide content or an outcome from Kimberly’s experience.
- Next-step question
- What is one thing I led this year, and what difference did it make for someone else?