Employability Skills

Throughout your future jobs, you'll constantly be building your commercial and technical skills through on-the-job learning and specific training activities and courses. You'll also need to look for additional opportunities to develop your know-how (in and out of work hours) and think about how you can use those new bits of knowledge and skill in order to progress in your career.

It's good to show your interest in a job through additional research, particularly prior to an interview or promotion opportunity. Find out everything you can about the company you're applying to, the role you're working towards, and how you could add value - making you the ideal candidate.

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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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• taken time to develop your IT skills?
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• learnt how to use a new piece of software or application?
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• taken an interest in current affairs?
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• found out about how a particular company operates?
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• spoken to people in business?
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• started your own commercial enterprise?

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