employability skills

1. COMMUNICATION AND
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
Successfully convinced one of my co workers to start his higher education
studies.
PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
Once I did not have the memory key with me with the presentation on it. I
grabbed a chalk and helped the presentation with drawing the most important
bits onto the blackboard.
USING MY INITIATIVE AND BEING
SELF-MOTIVATED
I wanted to do a charity job last summer abroad. I wouldn’t have been able to
finance it without taking overtime at my job during the Spring holiday.
WORKING UNDER PRESSURE AND TO
DEADLINES
At a bartender job we nearly run out of essential cocktail ingredient. There was
no chance to get it asap so I suggested to use the mixture of the most similar
and a little bit of the original so that we could still make customers happy.
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
In the last year of my secondary school studies I have organised the traditional
Green ribbon ball for 250 people. Including the planning of the whole event
and calculating the budget as well.
TOP 10 EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS
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2. TEAM WORKING I have been enjoying the benefits of being a team member of our handball
team that has members of cross cultures for 6 years now.
ABILITY TO LEANR AND ADAPT
While working in Greece in our team one of my colleges was deaf. I learnt the
basic sign language. The better understanding has resulted in a better work
performance.
NUMERACY
I do the entire budgeting for all my personal financial decisions, since my
parents are not able to support me, also live in a different country. I have never
been in debt and always able to make some savings.
VALUING DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE
Before handing in my essays I always ask for advice from several people, or
people who have personally experienced at some point the certain topic. The
wider range of opinions the bigger certainty of succeeding.
NEGOTIATION SKILLS
We loved our family holiday so much last time in Greece that we decided to
stay one night longer. I reached an agreement with the manager to give us the
rooms for one night longer for free, for getting another 3 families to book a
holiday in the same hotel in return.
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