Building Career Skills

Check out these resources for top skills employers are looking for:

• Top 12 Job Skills Employers Look for in Job Candidates

• Employment Skills Listed by Job

• ​9 Top Skills Employers Look for in 2022

• 10 skills you need to land a top job in 2022, according to Glassdoor

• 7 Skills Employers Look For Regardless of the Job

Here are some resources to continue to build your skills:

• Career Skills: Communication and Presentation Module from Indiana University (You will need to create an IU Guest account.)

• Kalamazoo College Center for Career and Professional Development has links to a wide range of online skill-building modules.

A trade school, or vocational school, teaches students specific trade skills required for certain technical or mechanical trades. Some trade schools are connected with a community college, such as Kellogg Community College.

Kellogg Community College’s manufacturing, skilled trades, and applied technology training primarily takes place at the Regional Manufacturing Technology Center or RMTC. The RMTC is an innovative, community-driven training facility in the Fort Custer Industrial Park in Battle Creek, with dedicated and helpful faculty and staff.

Their primary Industrial Trades programs, most offering both a certificate and an associate degree, include the following:

• Industrial Electricity and Electronics

• Industrial Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVACR)

• Industrial Machining Technology

• Industrial Pipefitting

• Industrial Technology

• Industrial Trades

• Industrial Welding

• Renewable Energy