Employability skills uses and activities
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Your Skills for Success
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Definition of Written Communication skills:
- Application of literacy, ability to produce clear, structured written work
- Presents ideas in a manner appropriate to a given audience, influences and convinces others
- Demonstrates persuading, influencing and negotiating skills in a variety of written activities/tasks
- academic essays
- summaries of literature (eg journal articles)
- promotional materials (eg advertisements, posters, leaflets)
- instructions (eg how to use a piece of equipment or app)
- tweets
- blog entries
- emails (very important to write these effectively and clearly)
- letters
- website content
- proposals for projects (eg a pitch for a business idea)
- applications for jobs and funding
- CVs and personal statements
- reports on projects
- Academic writing - with University of Sussex Skills Hub
- Writing emails
- Email protocol.pdf
- Writing a blog
Definition of spoken communication skills:
- Ability to produce clear, structured oral literacy, including listening and questioning
- Speaks confidently, presents ideas in a manner appropriate to a given audience, influences and convinces others
- Demonstrates persuading, influencing and negotiating skills in a variety of activities/tasks
- academic presentations
- academic seminars
- asking your tutor for guidance in a tutorial
- pitching a project (eg a business idea)
- presenting results
- carrying out interviews
- being interviewed for a job
- promoting a company, product (eg at a conference)
- developing ideas in a team (eg for a new business/project)
- planning a project in a team
- leading and directing a team (eg manager/director)
- reporting project ideas to your leader/manager
- speaking on behalf of a group in a meeting (eg class rep)
- asking for guidance from a mentor
- telephoning
- networking events (making connections with others)
- negotiating a business deal
- Join MentISC as a mentor or mentee
- Join the Student Experience Society at ISC
- Join a club/society at the University of Sussex and make new friends
- Help with academic presentations
- Learn about speaking with confidence
- BBC English Business presentation language (Links to an external site.)
- Learn/improve another language at the Language Cafe
- Make a podcast
- Resources for Pronunciation: bbc pronunciation workshops (Links to an external site.) https://www.wikihow.com/Improve-English-Pronunciation
Definition of Problem-solving skills:
- Analyses facts and circumstances and applies creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions
- Finds, evaluates and selects appropriate academic research, evidence or information to suit the requirements of the task/or to develop a solution
- Imagines, creates, identifies, evaluates and uses materials, information or actions to develop a solution
- In all areas of work
- Answering academic assessments appropriately (what do you need to do, how should you do it and when?)
- Planning and organising a project
- Managing a project/business
- Reaching, building and extending an audience or market for a brand or product
- Keeping ahead of your competitors through innovation and originality
- Kicking down doors and building contacts with new partners, influencers
- Raising money to fund a project
- Managing resources and budget
- Dealing with setbacks, eg changes in market conditions
- Learn about problem solving techniques and creativity
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Definition of Team Working skills:
- Respecting others, co-operating, negotiating/ persuading, contributing to discussion
- Works effectively as part of a team to complete research tasks, presentations, specific group tasks /activities
- Maintains own/team performance whilst managing other areas of study
- In all types of project based work and study
- Publicity campaigns
- Organising and managing an event
- Co-ordinating a marketing campaign
- Group presentations
- Running a company
- Get involved with Building Futures
Definition of numeracy skills:
- Manipulation of numbers, general mathematical awareness and its application in practical contexts
- Demonstrates and displays confidence in the use of numbers, statistics, ratios to evidence research or ideas
- Understanding and using data for essays and reports (eg sales figures, user data, news)
- Preparing infographics for reports and presentations (eg end of year reports)
- Calculating budgets
- Managing your company's and/or personal finances
- Which of these could you practise and improve?
- Some suggested activities to help develop numeracy: Learn how to use Excel - look for online tutorials or go to Skills Hub Research – data visualisation - using data sets and data visualization software to produce a set of visuals that inform and educate the viewer Play 'Maths' Games with STEAM :https://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=maths+gamesLinks to an external site. Register with ‘Apterous’ - (first 50 numbers games are free) and reflect on its value as a means of enhancing numeracy Create budgets
- Learn to use EXCEL
- Register FREE with APTEROUS. See instructions how to use it:apterous.docx
- How to use TABLEAU to make a data visualisation presentation
- Look at our WORLD IN DATA for data sets to practise with.
Definition of Use of IT skills:
- Basic IT skills, including familiarity with word processing, spread sheets, file management and the use of internet search engines
- Demonstrates and displays a professional approach to using technology and creating work that meets academic and business principles
- academic essays
- academic presentations
- job applications
- researching academic work
- documenting work (eg blogs, reports)
- on-line publishing (eg web design)
- social media (YouTube, Twitter, Instagram)
- blogging
- researching projects
- building databases of materials
- archiving work
- project management (eg files and folders)
- team projects (eg files and folders)
- keeping records and accounts
- producing inventories
- producing budget plans
- emailing
- Get really good at Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote. This is the core software in almost all institutions (work and education). Try these on-line tutorials
- Build your own website. You could use this as a portfolio of your work; post film reviews; publish a personal journal. Here are some great free tools
- Learn some coding (really useful if you want to get into animation, gaming)
- Sharpen your Photoshop skills with on-line tutorials
- Build some cool learning resources
- The University of Sussex IT Services run lots of really useful intensive software courses
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Definition of Business Awareness skills:
- Basic understanding of the key drivers for business/organisation success and the need to provide customer/client satisfaction
- Keep industry knowledge up to date.
- Build awareness by reading journals or professional industry related publications
- Develop business/sector knowledge through networking and talking to people (online or face to face)
- Academic work
- Job applications
- Understanding different sectors and what jobs they involve
- Your usefulness to a team/company
- Obtaining appropriate and useful equipment and software
- Using equipment and software effectively
- Getting funded for a new business idea
- Being able to create products and services that have a market
- Distributing your work and getting it to the right people (where and how to show it)
- Understanding trends, methods and approaches in your chosen industry
- Relationships with potential partners, sponsors, influencers
Definition of Sector Awareness skills:
- Basic understanding of the key drivers for business/organisation success and the need to provide customer/client satisfaction
- Keep industry knowledge up to date.
- Build awareness by reading journals or professional industry related publications
- Develop business/sector knowledge through networking and talking to people (online or face to face)
- Academic work
- Job applications
- Understanding different sectors and what jobs they involve
- Your usefulness to a team/company
- Obtaining appropriate and useful equipment and software
- Using equipment and software effectively
- Getting funded for a new business idea
- Being able to create products and services that have a market
- Distributing your work and getting it to the right people (where and how to show it)
- Understanding trends, methods and approaches in your chosen industry
- Relationships with potential partners, sponsors, influencers
Definition of Self-Management Skills:
- Readiness to accept responsibility; flexibility; time management; readiness to improve own performance
- Demonstrates initiative and takes action
- Takes responsibility, motivates self to achieve specific goals
- Plans time and resources to successfully work independently or with others to meet outcomes and deadlines
- Meeting deadlines for your assessments
- Having a healthy work-life balance
- Managing your own business
- Working as a freelancer
- Working independently as part of a team project
- Developing a good reputation as an employee
- Some suggestions of activities to help develop Self-Management: Create weekly time-tables and reflect on what you have achieved and what you haven't Watch TED talks and other resources that give tips about time-management and summarise these Research and use time-management techniques such as the 'Pomodoro' (see resources below) Find ways to balance your study and your health and reflect on this Do exercise and reflect on the benefits to your mental health
- Time management tips
The definition of Positive Attitude:
- Readiness to take part, openness to new ideas and activities, desire to achieve
- Demonstrates personal flexibility and resilience
- Reflects on learning and makes changes
- Acts on and uses peer and tutor feedback to develop skills
- A positive attitude is at the centre of employability skills and should be part of everything you do.
- Nobody wants to employ or work with someone with a negative attitude
- You will stand out if you have a "can-do attitude"
- Learn more about the importance and benefits of positive mindset
- ten_keys_guidebook.pdf
- 10 Powerful Mindsets for Students to Change the world
- Changing my career goals
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Definitions for Global Mindset and Knowledge Skills:
- Considers wider global influences and understands and respects others cultures, beliefs and value
- Builds on business, industry, commercial awareness to include knowledge about global affairs and how global forces shape live
- Knowledge promotes understanding and can only make the world a better place and you a better person!
- Local knowledge is not enough to survive in a global society
- Assessments and classes at ISC and University of Sussex will require you to get along with and work with people from other backgrounds and cultures
- You will be able to contribute much more in class discussions with wider knowledge
- Your academic assessments will demonstrate a high degree of sophistication
- You may be working in a country or organisation where there is great diversity. It's important to be able to relate to and have productive relationships with people from other backgrounds and with different beliefs and values
- Your knowledge of other cultures may be a real asset to your company and enable it to move into markets in other countries