10 Employability Attributes & Skills

EMPLOYABILITY ATTRIBUTES

1. Personal Presentation

• How a person looks - an instant judgment is made

• Personal hygiene

• Hair clean and nails

• Tasteful jewelry

2. Positive Work Ethic

• Honesty and integrity

• Reliability and commitment

• Loyalty

• How does an employer determine these values?

3. Confidence and self esteem

• How will an employer determine this?

• Good eye contact, not waiting to be spoken to, confident tone

• Focus on what you are good at, don't put yourself down

• Have examples from the past which have required self-esteem and confidence

4. Enthusiasm & motivation

• Willingness to help

• Wanting to do things, saying this will be easy

• How does an employer gauge this attribute in an interview?

• Give examples of persistence and enthusiasm

5. Adapts & Manages pressure

• Ability to adapt to any situation or constant changes

• Flexible and cope with changes

• Ability to manage pressure

• Have examples for interview

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

6. Communication and teamwork skills

• Speak to others, introduce yourself

• Collaborate with others

• Good quality written skills and clear verbal communications

• Employer can use a test of written skills and keyboard skills

• Good written skills

• Appropriate and professional

• You represent the company at all times

7. Problem-solving & Initiative

• Identify problems and solve them quickly

• Solve problems - identify problem and suggest options

• Evaluating best option to go with

• Job task in the interview to test problem solving and initiative

8. Planning and organising

• Self management

• Prioritizing and time management

• Planning your day logically

• How do you develop these skills?

• Use a diary, task manager on the computer

• Learn time management practices

• Change messy habits

9. Technology Savvy

• Good basic IT skills

• Can use PC for internet, emails and WORD

• Can use IT to organise data - eg tables, spreadsheets

10. Learning

• Willing to put in time to learn

• Improve skills that need development

• Strengthen skills that are already good to become outstanding in them

• Focus on goals

• Manage own learning

• Develops own way to manage knowledge

• Learning in a variety of ways - IT self help, peer, coach, courses

• How does an employer assess learning?