the career book
What are employers
looking for?
In addition to qualifications and technical skills,
employers are more often interested in employability
skills when deciding who to employ. The Australian
Government Core Skills for Work Developmental
Framework (CSfW) describes the non-technical
skills, knowledge and understandings necessary for
successful participation in work.
The 10 skill areas of CSfW include:
• Managing career and work life; including decisions
throughout life about how, when and where to work
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• Understanding work roles, protocols and workplace
rights and expectations
• Communicate for work; including recognising
communication protocols and etiquette, using
communication systems and processes, understanding
messages and getting messages across to others
• Connect and work with others; which involves
building the work-related relationships needed to
achieve outcomes and goals in work
EMPLOYERS VALUE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
CSfW include the employability skills, which identify key
generic employability skills which employers require individuals
to have along with the job-specific or relevant technical skills.
The Employability Skills Framework also identify a number of
personal attributes that employers value.
The following skills were included in the framework:
• Recognise and utilise diverse perspectives;
including the capacity to recognise and respond to
differing values, beliefs and behaviours, and draw on
diverse perspectives
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Communication
Teamwork
Problem-solving
Initiative and enterprise
• Plan and organise; which involves making choices
from a wide range of possibilities
Employability skills can be developed at school, through
sport, in the performing arts and in paid and unpaid work.
• Identify and solve problems; which involves
identifyi ng and addressing the routine and non-routine
problems in order to achieve work objectives
• Create and innovate; which includes creating,
applying and recognising the value of new ideas to
solve problems; improve or develop new processes,
products or strategies; or deliver new benefits
Reference: Job Guide 2015 http://www.jobguide.
thegoodguides.com.au/Looking-for-work/Step-1-Preparingto-look-for-work
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Planning and organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology skills