Employability Skills

Learning, sharing and innovation

Coming up with creative new ways to do things is an excellent skill to bring to the workplace. As well as being ready and willing to learn new skills, you need to be able to think of new ideas and share these with the right people.

Think about how you've made the most of new opportunities to learn, particularly in extra-curricular situations and learning outside of the classroom. Have you come up with a great new way to learn or study something, and then shared your idea with others? Maybe you suggested a way to make something more efficient, or came up with an idea for a new kind of fundraising event. You might have taken additional classes at college, such as music lessons or exercise classes. 

Consider the variety of ways that you have been taught, the different ways you've learnt new things, and how you have shared the best examples of this with others to improve their learning as well. Lifelong learning is important for everyone.

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On the final Review worksheet you should try and come up with examples of as many of the following questions as you can.

When have you:
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• come up with a better way of doing something?
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• shared your knowledge with others?
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• applied new learning to achieve a goal?
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• learnt something new outside your studies?
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• attended an employer presentation?

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This page is adapted from http://read.pwc.com/i/391324-employability-brochure.