What are the Main Employability Skills?
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION - able to express yourself clearly in writing
- VERBAL COMMUNICATION - expressing your ideas clearly and confidently in speech
- FLEXIBILITY - adapting successfully to changing situations and environments
- PERSUADING - able to convince others, to discuss and reach agreement
- TEAMWORK - working confidently within a group
- LEADERSHIP - able to motivate and direct others
- PLANNING AND ORGANISING - able to plan activities and carry them through effectively
- INVESTIGATING, ANALYSING AND PROBLEM SOLVING - gathering information systematically to establish facts and principles
- NUMERACY - able to carry out arithmetic operations/understand data
- COMPUTING SKILLS
- DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALISM
Now continue to our other skills pages
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