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Employability Skills Framework
Element
Facets of the skill that employers identified as important noting that the mix and priority of these facets would vary from job to job. (This list is abridged)
Communication
1 Listening and understanding
2 Speaking clearly and directly
3 Reading independently
4 Using numeracy
5 Writing to the needs of the audience
Team work
1 Working across different ages irrespective of gender, race religion or political persuasion
2 Working as an individual and as a member of a team
3 Applying team work to a range of situations eg. Future planning, crisis problem solving
Problem Solving
1 Developing creative, innovative solutions
2 Developing practical solutions
3 Showing independence and initiative in identifying problems and solving them
4 Applying problem solving strategies across a range of areas
5 Applying a range of strategies to problem-solving
6 Using mathematics including budgeting and financial management to solve problems
7 Solving problems in teams
Self Management
1 Evaluating and monitoring own performance
2 Having knowledge and confidence in own ideas and visions
3 Taking responsibility
4 Having personal vision and goals
Planning and Organising
1 Managing time and priorities – setting time lines, co-ordinating tasks for self and with others
2 Taking initiative and making decisions
3 Allocating people and other resources to tasks
4 Collecting, analysing and organising information
Technology
1 Having a range of basic IT skills
2 Using IT to organise data
3 Being willing to learn new IT skills
4 Applying IT as a management tool
Learning
1 Managing own learning
2 Contributing to the learning community at the workplace
3 Using a range of mediums to learn – mentoring, peer support, networking, IT, courses
4 Having enthusiasm for ongoing learning
5 Being open to new ideas and techniques
6 Acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate change
Initiative and Enterprise
1 Adapting to new situations
2 Being creative and identifying ideas not obvious to others
3 Translating ideas into action
4 Developing strategic, long term solutions
Extract from Employability Skills for the Future
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