EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS: Key to Workplace Success

 





Employees have been investing on their technical skills, degrees, and acquiring great grades. While it is great to invest the time and effort on the technical or hard skills, equally important are the employability skills that will help get a job, maintain a job and successfully add value to any company and eventually help with career growth.  

 

Employability skills are sometimes called soft skills, foundational skills, essential skills, work-readiness skills, or job-readiness skills. Employability skills refer to a set of transferable skills and key personal attributes which are highly valued by employers and essential for effective performance in the workplace behaviors.

 

Employers value employability skills because they are linked to how you get along with coworkers and customers, your job performance, and your career success. Those skills allow you to communicate with coworkers, solve problems, understand your role within the team, make responsible choices, and take charge of your own career. Some of the essential employability skills include:     

 

  1. Communication 
  2. Teamwork
  3. Punctuality
  4. Critical Thinking
  5. Planning and Organizing
  6. Leadership
  7. Adaptability
  8. Patience



Why employability skills are important?

In today’s competitive job market, it’s important to stand out. Employability skills can help you do that. While having a good degree in a relevant subject is certainly important, it’s something that many graduates will be able to offer.

Therefore, lots of employers will make final hiring decisions based on what other skills candidates can bring to the job. Being able to demonstrate good employability skills could be what makes a hiring manager choose you!


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