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Seventeen Employability Skills
Improve your job skills in Access, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio and Word.
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Communication
PowerPoint, Visio and Word
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Producing grammatical, well expressed, easily understood and interesting text about topics that may be unfamiliar to the reader
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Information Technology
Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word and Visio
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Proficiency in using a computer and with the business tools on that computer. This is what employers’ expect you to be good at already.
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Numeracy
Excel and Power Excel
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Understanding and using facts or ideas expressed in numbers, graphs or simple equations
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Planning & organization
Project, Outlook and Visio
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Working out how to schedule available resources and activities in order to meet an objective
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Adaptability and flexibility
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Changing or modifying behavior in response to the needs, wishes or demands of others
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Commercial awareness
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Understanding the priorities of and economic factors affecting businesses
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Communication – interpersonal
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Using speech to express ideas, give information, or explanations, in a way that is easily understood by others who are unfamiliar with the topic
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Continuing personal & professional development
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Seeking opportunities and learning from experience
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Creativity
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Being original and inventive in order to solve problems, generate ideas or produce novel designs
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Decision-making
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Identifying options, gathering information about their suitability, and then systematically using this to choose the best option
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Initiative
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Acting before prompted by others or taking a fresh approach
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Leadership
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Possessing the quality of character and personality to gain the confidence of and lead others
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Negotiation
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Trying to reach an agreement or compromise by discussion with others
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Networking
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Interacting with others to exchange information and develop useful contacts
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Problem solving
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Devising and then using an appropriate method, rule, technique or logic in order to find a solution to a problem
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Self awareness
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Being sensitive to your own attitudes and dispositions
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Team working
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Interacting and co-operating with a group of people. It involves hands-on working together, as well as processes of organizational planning, decision-making and development
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