What Graduate Employers Want
Good Communication
- How clearly you convey your idea
- Ability to listen to others
- Build rapport (make communication with each other)
- Persuade and negotiate
Effective Leadership and Management
- The potential to motivate and direct others in order to achieve common objectives
Planning and Research Skills
- Come up with a suitable strategy and plan of action
- Seek out relevant information from various sources
- Analyse, interpret and report these findings
Teamwork and Interpersonal Skills
- Your individual contribution towards achieving common goals
Self-management
- Successfully directing your work towards objectives
- Prioritising your duties
- Working well under pressure
- Managing your time effectively (time management)
- Flexible, resilient and can be trusted
- Taking on new learning and challenges
- Reflecting (look at yourself and think about it)
Relevant Work Experience
- Be resourceful in gaining the type of experience that employers are after
- In some sectors, such as media and the arts, it is necessary to network and make speculative job applications
- Benefits: develop skills, familiarity with behaviour in the workplace, make contact, build a portfolio of evidence to support application
Business Sense
- Help to make profit
Enhancing your blog
- Prepare examples as evidence of your skills/competencies
- Show you can reflect on your personal and professional development – another key employability skill
- Close your skills gap
- Watch your digital footprint
- Research roles and organizations very carefully
- A positive attitude is essential. Employers often say they hire for attitude and train for skill.
Demonstrating your skills
- CV: personal profile
- Your blog
- CV: key skills/key strengths/core skills
- Cover letter
- Interview
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