Employability Skills

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One of the many Employability Skills. It seems obvious, but there is a need to be able to read and write to a reasonable standard within a business environment.

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One of the many Employability Skills. There will typically be some requirement to negotiate for something within a workplace.

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One of the many Employability Skills, which includes understanding numbers, quantities such as areas, volumes, lengths, application rates, plus shapes, such as rectangles, triangles and cubes, and how to actually manipulate and use figures for accurate calculations.

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Taking an interest in your own personal performance is beneficial from a number of perspectives, including to ensure you carry out tasks safely, without injuring yourself or others; to help develop a career; to achieve the requirements of your job role; to meet targets set by others, such as line managers; and to complete tasks to the desired standard.

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The ability to influence others to help shape the behaviour, opinion, or action of others.

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One of the many Employability Skills. This skill is related to the self-management employability skill but is sometimes included as a separate attribute to emphasise external pressures on an individual and how manage these through good planning skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.

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Power Skills advert image shown if present
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A different term that is sometimes used for Soft Skills, although they are the same thing.

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One of the many Employability Skills. How should an employee present himself or herself within the workplace? This will depend upon the business environment and whether there is a need to conform to that environment.

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The communication of a message to others will involve speaking to others, whether in person, webinar, video link, as part of a digital (such as online) guide, or similar.

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One of the many Employability Skills. How do you solve a problem? Gather the facts, analyse the problem and come up with one or more solutions. Employers like to be able to see solutions that help drive a business forward, not problems that would need their constant input.

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