Employability Skills

Problem-solving skills

• The ability to understand a problem by breaking it down into smaller parts, and identifying the key issues, implications, and identifying solutions. To apply your knowledge from many different areas to solve a task

• Working well with other people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise to accomplish a task or goal.

Using your initiative and being self-motivated

• Knowing the value of diversity and what it can bring. Understanding and being considerate of the different needs of different individuals.

• Having new ideas of your own which can be made into a reality. Showing a strong personal drive and not waiting to be told to do things

Working under pressure and to deadlines

• Handling stress that comes with deadlines and ensuring that you meet them.

• To be enthusiastic about your work, and to identify ways to learn from your mistakes for the benefit of both you and your employer

Organisational skills

• Handling stress that comes with deadlines and ensuring that you meet them.

• Being organised and methodical. Able to plan work to meet deadlines and targets. Monitoring the progress of work to ensure you are on track to meeting a deadline.

Team working

• Working well with other people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise to accomplish a task or goal.

• Having new ideas of your own which can be made into a reality. Showing a strong personal drive and not waiting to be told to do things.

Ability to learn and adapt

• To be enthusiastic about your work, and to identify ways to learn from your mistakes for the benefit of both you and your employer.

• The ability to explain what you mean in a clear and concise way through written and spoken means. To listen and relate to other people, and to act upon key information/instructions.

Numeracy

• To apply your knowledge from many different areas to solve a task.

• The ability to use data and mathematics to support evidence or demonstrate a point.

Valuing diversity and difference

• Working well with other people from different disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise to accomplish a task or goal.

• Knowing the value of diversity and what it can bring. Understanding and being considerate of the different needs of different individuals

Negotiation skills

• To take on board other people’s feelings and express your own requirements in an unemotional clear fashion to achieve a win-win outcome.

• To be enthusiastic about your work, and to identify ways to learn from your mistakes for the benefit of both you and your employer

Communication and interpersonal skills

• To take on board other people’s feelings and express your own requirements in an unemotional clear fashion to achieve a win-win outcome.

• The ability to explain what you mean in a clear and concise way through written and spoken means. To listen and relate to other people, and to act upon key information/instructions.