America Reads and Viking Corps

How Working with CPL America Reads and Viking Corps Helps You Prepare for and Build Your Future Career, Regardless of Your Major:

• Improves your communication skills
• Expands your network
• Develops your problem solving skills, creativity, and ability to think on your feet or outside the box
• Enhances your presentation skills
• Increases your self-confidence and ability to follow and give directions
• Fosters better listening skills and patience
• Advances your understanding and knowledge of other cultures and ability to work with different groups of people
• Raises your ability to adapt and be responsive to different needs
• Betters your own skills and knowledge of a variety of subject matters
• Grows ability to pass knowledge onto others and take technical information and break it down into more understandable parts
• Develops leadership skills and being ability to work as part of a team
• Develops your soft skills in preparation for co-ops or internships possibly required for your major