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Employers are often looking for skills that go beyond qualifications and experience.
Your education and experience may make you eligible to apply for a job but, to be successful in most roles, you will need skills that you are likely to develop over time. Some will be specific to the job, but the vast majority will be so-called ‘soft skills’ that can be used in any job or employment sectors. These soft skills are ‘employability skills’: they are what makes you employable.
As a general rule, employers are willing to teach someone the job-specific skills required, such as how to operate particular pieces of machinery, or use particular computer packages that are very specific to that role or company. However, they usually want to see that you already have the other ‘soft skills’ before hiring, because they are much harder to teach.
Below are videos that talk about some employability skills and what you can do to improve yours.
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Employability skills - have you got them?
What are key skills?
Communication Skills
Teamwork Skills
Leadership skills
Planning, prioritizing and organising skills
What are soft skills?
Resilience
Skills Assessment
A skills assessment can be helpful at any stage of your career, for example, when you:
start your career
return to work
progress your career
Transferable skills are a set of skills that you are good at. You can build them up over time, through work, volunteering, education and life. You can apply these skills to a range of jobs.
You may want to take an assessment to help you:
find out what interests and motivates you
identify your skills
find out what you can do with the skills you have
Discover your skills and careers: In this assessment, answer questions about the things you like to do or are good at. Understanding yourself can help you work out what careers you may enjoy working in. To take this assessment, click HERE.
Skills health check: The skills health check is a more in-depth collection of assessments. These assessments will generate a report, which can help you identify your personal and work-based skills. This information could be helpful if you're applying for a job or preparing for an interview. To take this assessment, click HERE.
Top 10 Employability Skills
A4 employability fold out_Interactive_v4.pdfEvidencing Your Skills
When writing job, apprenticeship or university applications you should talk about your skills and give examples of how you can demonstrate these skills.
A good way to do this is to use the STAR technique:
Situation – Set the scene – describe the situation
Task – Outline the task and what the goal was
Action – Provide details about the action you took
Result – Describe the outcome and result of your action
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