Sabin, MihaelaBarr, MatthewClear, TonyRaj, Rajendra K2025-09-042025-09-042025-06-17ITiCSE 2025: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 2. Pages 707 - 708. https://doi.org/10.1145/3724389.3730764http://hdl.handle.net/10292/19757The academic preparation of computing graduates ready for successful long-term careers remains challenging due to a variety of factors, with most universities still unable to incorporate competencies into their education. Competencies refer to the knowledge, skills, and professional dispositions expected from these graduates during task performance. This panel presents three different perspectives on how work experiences may be incorporated into the program curriculum to develop the needed competencies.Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the owner/author(s). ITiCSE 2025, June 27-July 2, 2025, Nijmegen, Netherlands © 2025 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).3903 Education Systems39 EducationComputing competenciescompetency-based educationcomputing professioncomputing curriculawork-based experiencesConference ContributionOpenAccess10.1145/3724389.3730764