Developing your work skills
Starting right now and over the course of your studies do what it takes to
develop suitable skills, attributes and experience to make you employable and
turn yourself into the favoured applicant.
Skills for Getting Ahead
- Self awareness. Knowledge of your strengths, skills, values and interests.
- Self promotion. Being able to target identified needs in the workplace and demonstrate how your own knowledge, strengths and skills match them.
- Positioning yourself for opportunities. Being able to identify, create, investigate and seize opportunities.
- Taking charge and being in control. Being able to plan and implement a course of action.
- Networking. Being able to develop and effectively make use of a network of contacts.
- Matching and decision making. Identifying or 'matching' together the factors that affect decisions, so that you can make informed decisions.
- Negotiation. Using discussion, compromise and agreement to make decisions and solve problems.
- Political awareness. Understanding the way organisations function, and how people and power structures within organisations operate.
- Coping with uncertainty. Being able to work effectively in changing circumstances.
- Development focus. Being committed to lifelong learning and focused on your own personal and professional development.
- Transfer skills. Being able to apply existing skills to new circumstances.
- Self confidence. Being self-reliant and certain of your own abilities.
