Employability Skills

Developing yourself and others

It's important to be able to show employers how much you have done to personally develop yourself, and to help others to do better as well.

Think about things you have done well and not so well. Are there times when you've given other people constructive feedback that made a difference, or when you have received feedback on your own work or abilities and taken action on this to develop a certain skill?

You may have experience of giving and receiving feedback, helping others and developing yourself from a whole lot of different areas of your life. You may have been a mentor to another student at school or colleague, or supported a new colleague at work in learning their role. Maybe you set yourself goals that go beyond your main college studies, part time job or voluntary work. Remaining passionate about developing yourself will help you to provide lots of ideas to prove this to future employers.

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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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• pushed yourself to achieve something?
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• set yourself high standards?
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• changed the way you did something after getting feedback?
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• developed new skills outside your college studies?
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• helped others to understand a topic/task?
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• acted as a mentor for someone?
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• given feedback to other people?

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