While many career paths have their own specific workflows, standards, measures, and work environments, there are some generally applicable skills that can be applied across sectors from technical skills to awareness of world events and how they apply to your work. Use the resources below to explore these transferable skills.
Current Events and News
All students, faculty, and staff at NSU have full subscription access to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
- Newspaper Digital Subscriptions for Students, Faculty, and StaffLearn about how to access FREE subscriptions to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal through Norfolk State University.
The Lyman Beecher Brooks Library also offers thousands of additional newspapers through databases:
- America's News (NewsBank)
This collection provides access to more than 4,000 U.S. news sources, including current coverage and archives back to the 1980s. The platform draws from national, regional, and local news content, including access to more than 70 Virginia news sources, such as The Virginian-Pilot and Richmond Times-Dispatch.
- Factiva
Factiva is a Dow Jones business intelligence platform that includes content from 33,000 news, data, and information sources from 200 countries and 32 languages. The archive has more than two billion articles. The oldest dates from 1944, and 2,300 sources have more than 20 years of archived articles.
Office Software
Word processing, data management, and communication platforms are ubiquitous in the workplace. Having a strong foundation with these resources as well as the ability to improvise and learn new systems can be a very useful workplace skill.
- O’Reilly for Higher Education
The O'Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online, saving time and quickly finding the information they need.
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