Employability Skills Quiz

Employability skills are sometimes called which of the following?

• Personality skills

• Academic skills

• People skills

• Soft skills

Being engaged in communication and showing others you care about a conversation requires which of the following?

• Participation in extracurricular activities

• Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes

• Using body language, eye contact and facial expressions

• Thinking “outside of the box”

Which of the following requires knowledge and understanding of the organization’s goals and available resources?

• Teamwork

• Planning

• Initiative

• Flexibility

Which of the following can help to improve teamwork skills?

• Keeping a schedule

• Developing a process

• Participating in extracurricular activities

• Thinking “outside of the box”

Jarrod has gotten a job as a cashier at a retail store. He notices the fitting rooms are messy, so he cleans them and puts the clothes away when he is not busy. Even though this is not part of his job description and his manager did not ask him to clean the fitting rooms, this is an example of Jarrod demonstrating which of the following?

• Initiative

• Communication skills

• Problem solving

• Planning skills