Employability Skills (BusCompSci)

Employability Skills (BusCompSci)

Employability Skills

These are the skills you need to get a job, keep a job, and advance in that career.

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​You will use these skills the rest of your life.

Employability Skills

These skills will also help you become a better student.

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Habits like punctuality (being on time) are learned in school so when you become an adult, it is effortless.

Multiple Choice

Being punctual is a habit you should have to be a good employee.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

These skills you are learning will never be used again in your life.

• True

• False

Work Ethic

• The principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward

• Basically that means doing a job well is its own reward.

• Think about the feeling you get when you do a chore or an assignment well. Doesn't it make you feel good?

Punctual and Honest

• Punctual - on time

• Honest - truthful

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Dependable

• Trustworthy

• Reliable

• Your boss, just like your teacher, wants to be able to depend on you.

Responsible

• Able to be trusted to do what is right or to do the things that are expected or required

• Yes, this is very similar to dependable.

• It can also mean you take the blame if something goes wrong.

Multiple Choice

To be honest means you are being

• truthful.

• negative.

• punctual.

• deceitful.

Time Management

• Using your time wisely to get everything done

• Usually involves meeting deadlines

• ​Bosses expect you to meet deadlines.

Multiple Choice

If I watch YouTube videos, talk to my buddies, and eventually get my work done, I am using good time managment skills.

• True

• False

Communication

• Expressing ideas, thoughts, and information

• This can be written communication.

• It also includes listening.

• It is important to communicate effectively with your boss.

Multiple Choice

Listening is not a part of communication.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Your boss does not care if you communicate effectively.

• True

• False

Technology Skills

• Skills needed to use technology effectively.

Attendance

• Being at your job (or school) when you're supposed to be

• Employers want you at your job

• You can get fired if you don't show up for your job.

Multiple Choice

Tiffany had tickets for a concert so told her boss she couldn't come to work. She had missed the previous week to go to Six Flags. What do you think happened?

• Her coworkers were happy for her even though they had to work longer.

• She got in trouble, maybe even fired.

Teamwork

• Working together to get things done.

• This is very important in a job. Bosses don't care if you don't like someone. They are not going to change your location if you don't like your coworker.

• They just want you to get the job done.

Attitude

• Your boss definitely wants you to have a good attitude.

• You can get fired if your attitude stinks.

• Ask yourself if your attitude is good or bad most of the time? If your answer is bad, you definitely want to work on improving it.

Initiative

• Doing something you know needs doing without being told.

• Coming in to class and logging onto Canvas and doing your bell work is showing initiative.

• Your employer wants you to have initiative because most bosses have a lot of employees. The boss doesn't have time to constantly tell an employee what to do.

Multiple Choice

Your attitude at work isn't important.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You can get fired if you have a bad attitude.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Going in and doing something that has to be done without being told is showing

• punctual

• initiative

• honest

• technology skills

Multiple Choice

Bosses want you to be at work and work together with coworkers to get the job done.

• True

• False

Integrity

• Doing the right thing

• It doesn't matter if others are doing wrong.

• It doesn't matter if nobody sees what you are doing.

Accountability

• Taking responsibility for your actions

• That means if you do something wrong, you own up to it

• Bosses rarely fire for mistakes. They WILL fire for lying to them.

Multiple Choice

Bosses will fire you if you make a mistake.

• Always

• Usually they don't

Tolerance

• Accepting other people's beliefs, values even if you don't agree with them.

• Basically, it's agreeing to disagree.

• A lot of interesting people do not have the same views I do. That doesn't mean I am rude to them. It means we tolerate the other's viewpoint.

Critical Thinking

• Problem solving in a creative manner

• Not expecting someone to show you how to solve a problem

• This is a help to employers if you can think critically and find solutions.

Multiple Choice

You must be able to show tolerance at your job.

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Tolerance means you get along with others even if you do not agree on everything.

• True

• False