Employability skills

• Introduction
• Timeline
  Calendar of when you need apply for jobs, courses etc. during university.
• Analyse your employability skills
  Which skills do you have? Need to improve?
• Find the skills needed for different graduate jobs
• Which jobs suit my skills?
• Skills map
• What are the top ten skills that employers' want?
• Skills inventory
  Make an inventory of all your skills including strengths & weaknesses.
• Progress file
  Record your study, work experience & interests for CVs, career choice & to help your referees.
• How to develop employability skills & convince employers you possess them.
• Analyse your personal styles: recognising your assets.
• What are your strengths?
• Dealing with skills questions at application and interview
• The skills game
  Match the employability skills with their descriptions
• NEW: Moodle Careers Employability Award
• Kent Employability Points
• My Folio: the University on-line ePortfolio and PDP tool

Specific Skills

• Teamworking
  Interactive exercise & tips for group work exercises in selection centres.
• Making effective presentations
• Action planning
  Techniques to reach your goals.
• Decision making skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Time management. Valuable in jobhunting & revising for exams. See also In-tray exercises
• Commercial awareness
• Spoken communication
• Written communication
• Persuading, influencing and negotiating skills
• Leadership skills including a leadership styles exercise
• Language skills
• Computing skills
• Numeracy
• Striving for excellence
• Determination
• Adaptability
• Assertiveness
• Lateral thinking
  Test your creative thinking skills.
• Second lateral thinking test
  
• Riddles: another way of lateral thinking
• Creative jobhunting
• Using Social Media in Jobhunting
• Maintaining morale/coping with unemployment

Skills in Applications and Interviews

• How to deal with competency-based questions on application forms and at interview
  These start with "Give an example ..." or "Describe a situation ...".
• Assertiveness in interviews
• Employer aptitude tests includes tips on how to pass these.
  There are 7 practice tests:
  • Numerical reasoning test
  • Numerical reasoning test 2
  • Verbal (synonyms) test
  • Verbal reasoning test
  • Letter Sequences test (logical thinking)
  • Non-verbal reasoning test
  • Spelling and punctuation test