Skills employers say make them want to hire you.
Employability skills in demand
Employability skills are the skills, qualities and attitudes that employers say are essential for their workplace.
The seven essential employability skills
Seven essential employability skills with examples:
- Positive attitude
- Being calm and cheerful when things go wrong.
- Communication
- You can listen and say information clearly when you speak or write.
- Teamwork
- You help out when it gets busy at work.
- Self-management
- You get to work on time every day.
- Willingness to learn
- You want to learn new things to improve your skills.
- Thinking skills (problem solving and decision making)
- You try and solve problems or can see where something won’t work.
- Resilience
- You get an angry customer but you keep calm, keep working and laugh about it later.
My employability skills – exercise
Employers want you to have all of the seven employability skills, but you’ll find that you are better at some of the skills than others. The skills you are good at can give you career ideas.
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