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What Work Leicestershire
Skills, skills, skills
As well as qualifications, employers also look for the skills people
have when they’re applying for jobs. Here are some of the skills
that employers are most looking for from you:
Nine out of 10 new
jobs today require
some level of IT
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Here’s how you can highlight your skills!
Communication and literacy
Speak up! Join in with discussions, express your
opinions thoughtfully, but also listen to what others
have to say. If you’ve done a presentation at school,
explain how you presented it clearly and why.
Team working
Good proof of teamwork is having taken part
in a team sport, drama production or other
activity. This might be within school or in your
own time. Show that you can get on well with
others, value their opinions and communicate
well in order to complete a team task.
Problem solving
By the time you’re 38 you could
have had 10 different jobs.
That’s why you’ll need a good
set of transferable skills!
Explain how you would identify a problem and how you would solve it.
You could come up with different ways of tackling it and who else you
would need to involve. If you can think of something you’ve had to tackle
that was difficult then it shows that you’re not afraid of a challenge.
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