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10 Employability Attributes & Skills
This title is part of the Take Away Training Series
Duration: 14 minutes
Synopsis

Learn about the 5 key attributes and 5 core skills that make anyone more employable and more effective in their work.

Essential viewing for job seekers and recruiters.

Key Learning Points

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?
Package Description
DVD
Recommended Audiences
  • Sales Staff
  • Service Staff
  • Telephone Staff
  • Managers
Distributed in the following format(s)
  • DVD
Available in the following language(s)
  • English
Media Type
 Video Recording
Presentation Style
  • Interview
STOCK CODE
TAT77
ISBN
9780980294712
Published
Melbourne
Filming location
Australia
Release year
2007
Copyright owner
ClickView
Publisher
Seven Dimensions