Skills for the Better Career

Skills for the Better Career
Institute of Business Administration, University of the Punjab, Lahore,
Pakistan
Hafiz Dabeer 005
BBA (Afternoon) 2013-2017

The 2016 Skills for the Better Carrier University of the Punjab Lahore
Institute of Business Administration (IBA) P a g e | 2
Table of Content
1. Learning Objectives:............................................................................................................. 3
2. Background:.......................................................................................................................... 4
3. Introduction: ......................................................................................................................... 6
3.1. Communications Skills (listening, verbal, written):...................................................... 6
3.2. Flexibility/Adaptability/Managing Multiple Priorities: ................................................ 8
3.3. Ability to functioning admirably under pressure: ......................................................... 9
3.4. Leadership/Management Skills................................................................................... 10
3.5. Planning/Organizing.................................................................................................... 10
3.6. Problem-Solving/Reasoning/Creativity/Decision-Making: ........................................ 12
3.7. Analyzing and Investigating/Research Skills.............................................................. 13
3.8. Teamwork: .................................................................................................................. 13
3.9. Commercial mindfulness (or business keenness): ...................................................... 14
3.10. Information technology............................................................................................... 14
3.11. Perseverance and inspiration/Initiative/Self-Motivation:............................................ 15
3.12. Self-Confidence:.......................................................................................................... 16
3.13. Time Management Abilities........................................................................................ 16
3.14. Ability to Accept and Learn From Criticism: ............................................................. 17
4. Summary:............................................................................................................................ 18
5. Discussion Questions:......................................................................................................... 19
6. Key words:.......................................................................................................................... 19
7. References .......................................................................................................................... 19
Table 1 Top Ten Skills Shortages Among Graduates....................................................18

1. Learning Objectives:
 Learn Communications Skills (listening, verbal, and written)
 Learn Flexibility/Adaptability/Managing Multiple Priorities
 Learn Ability to functioning admirably under pressure
 Learn Leadership/Management Skills
 Learn Planning/Organizing
 Learn Problem-Solving/Reasoning/Creativity/ Decision-Making
 Learn Analyzing & Investigating/Research Skills
 Learn Teamwork
 Learn Commercial mindfulness (or business keenness)
 Learn Information technology
 Learn Perseverance and motivation/Initiative/Self-Motivation
 Learn Self-Confidence
 Learn Time Management Abilities
 Learn Ability to Accept and Learn From Criticism

2. Background:
Graduate employers place a lot of emphasis on finding candidates with the right skills
and competencies for their organizations. Depending on the career sector and profession you
choose to work in, there could be very specific skills, abilities and knowledge needed to do the
job. However, complementing these are general competences and behaviors that are essential
for successful working. These are often overlooked by candidates, but they are the things
recruitment professionals want to see evidence of.
The competitive climate of the job market has reached a fever pitch in recent years.
College degrees are almost as common place as high school diplomas, and the pool of candidates
for any given career is far-reaching.
To stand out in such an environment, job seekers need to give emphasis to their
experiences and backgrounds on their resumes. A degree from a prestigious university or an
impressive roster of past employers can certainly make a good impression on hiring managers,
but the real test of a candidate's fit is how well the person's skills align with the position in
question.
"In resumes, you see a skills summary, [which includes] problem solving,
communications skills, analyzing and investigating, etc.” "However, oftentimes, we don't see an
explanation of those skills. If you have 'problem solving' and 'critical thinking' in your resume,
you should tie those skills into your explanation of job duties and how those specific skills played
an important part."
The challenge is greater for those who have been laid off or who have been out of work
for an extended period of time. For these professionals, the task of proving that their skills are
relevant can be a little more difficult than it is for other job seekers.
Ford R. Myers, a career coach, speaker and author of the book, "Get The Job You Want,
Even When No One's Hiring" (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), advised considering transferable skills

that you've gained from paid and unpaid past experiences.
"Transferable skills acquired during any activity — volunteer positions, classes, projects,
parenting, hobbies, sports — can be applicable to one's next job," Myers said. "By adding
transferable skills to a resume, employers get a better understanding and broader picture of who
they are hiring, as well as the interests, values and experiences that the candidate brings to the
table."
Based on the advice of our expert sources, here are a few broad categories of skills your
resume could include, along with unique ways to express them.
Each company looks for a different mix of skills and experience depending on the
business it's in. Yet it's no longer enough to be a functional expert. To complement these unique
core competencies, there are certain "skills" every company looks for in a potential hire.
"Skills" refer to a cluster of personal qualities, habits, attitudes and social graces that
make someone a good employee and compatible to work with. Companies value these skills
because research suggests and experience shows that they can be just as important an indicator
of job performance.
Today's service economy and the ascendance of work teams in large organizations puts
a new premium on people skills and relationship-building," Portland-based human resources
expert Lori Kocon says. "And with business being done at an increasingly fast pace, employers
also want people who are agile, adaptable and creative at solving problems."
Kocon advises all job candidates -- especially those who aspire to managerial positions
-- to get in touch with their soft sides. Some of the most common soft skills employers are
looking for and will be assessing you on include:
You focus on the skills most likely to interest the prospective employer and learn to
demonstrate these skills through your resume, in an interview or in dealing with potential
employers at career fairs or industry association gatherings.

For example, tell a story of how you successfully handled a crisis or challenge at your
company. Mention honors you received or even bring along letters of thanks or commendation
from an employer or customer.
Remember, whether you are applying for a service position or a technical job, it's your
combination of core and soft skills that will set you apart from the crowd!
(Lorenz, Kate, 2009)
3. Introduction:
3.1.Communications Skills (listening, verbal, written):
Is it true that you are both verbally well-spoken and a decent audience? Will you put
forth your defense and express your needs in a way that fabricates spans with associates, clients
and merchants?
By a long shot, the one expertise said regularly by bosses is the capacity to tune in,
compose, and talk adequately. Effective correspondence is basic in business.
Exceptional audience and communicator who successfully passes on data verbally and
in composing (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
This spreads verbal and composed correspondence, and tuning in. It's about being clear,
compact and centered; having the capacity to tailor your message for the group of onlookers and
listening to the perspectives of others (Targetjobs, 2015).
Employments require collaboration. There will be consistent forward and backward
trades with colleagues, and talking about and imparting thoughts to directors. Businesses will
need to know the level of relational abilities you have and how well you function with others.
The particular required aptitudes will shift taking into account your position. A business
delegate, for occurrence, would need to highlight client administration and relationship-building
knowledge (Gausepohl, Shannon, 2015 ).

Transaction and influence is about having the capacity to advance your direction,
additionally having the capacity to comprehend where the other individual is originating from
with the goal that you can both get what you need or need and feel positive about it (Targetjobs,
2015).
The umbrella term "relational abilities" incorporates a trifecta of capacities, including
the ability to tune in, compose and talk. This is one of the top qualities managers search for in
advanced contracts; it's crucial for accepting, deciphering and providing guidance. In like
manner, a feeling of social insight is likewise crucial: Employees should have the capacity to
comprehend where companions, associates and vital accomplices are originating from, not only
the words they're stating, so they can better understand follow up on this data (Steinberg, Scott,
2013).
Anybody can talk however not everybody knows how to express what is on their mind
without making others' ears ring. Wandering, standing up of turn, unleashing an ungainly
downpour of words – we've all done it.
It's not a major ordeal to say something odd to your bank employee, yet reliably poor
correspondence at work can take its toll in general group and could turn associates against each
other. It could even cost you a raise (Mariya Pylayev, 2014).
Correspondence is about ready to express your
thoughts obviously and unhesitatingly in discourse and
in addition ready to communicate plainly in composing
(Bruce Woodcock, 2015).
On your resume: composes plainly and
compactly; listens mindfully; transparently
communicates thoughts, arranges/determines contrasts; gives and asks to input; offers well-
thoroughly considered arrangements; coordinates and cooperates with other people; flourishes

in a collective domain.
3.2.Flexibility/Adaptability/Managing Multiple Priorities:
Manages your capacity to deal with numerous assignments and undertakings, set needs,
and adjust to changing conditions and work assignments.
Flexible cooperative person who flourishes in
situations obliging capacity to successfully organize and juggle
numerous simultaneous ventures (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
Is it accurate to say that you are ready to adjust to new
circumstances and difficulties? Will you grasp change and be
interested in new thoughts?
Each creature alive today arrived on the grounds that its predecessors could adjust to
their living conditions and make children to go on their
favorable qualities. At the point when the earth dove into an
Ice Age 2.6 million years prior, a few species made sense of
how to survive the freezing temperatures while others fizzled,
shrugged their shoulders and got to be lost to history.
Work environments are guided by the same principles
of survival. To be stuck in your ways is the least demanding approach to make the cutback list.
Moreover, adaptable laborers are less pushed and are better at striking a work-life equalization
(Mariya Pylayev, 2014).
Adaptability is adjust effectively to changing circumstances and situations (Bruce
Woodcock, 2015).

There is perhaps no greater issue in the working
environment than differences, and occupation seekers
must exhibit an affectability and attention to other
individuals and societies.
Personable expert whose qualities incorporate
social affectability and a capacity to assemble
compatibility with a differing workforce in multicultural
settings (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
3.3.Ability to functioning admirably under pressure:
Will you handle the anxiety that goes with due dates and emergencies? Will you have
the capacity to do your best work and come through when absolutely necessary?
This is about resisting the urge to panic in an emergency and not turning out to be
excessively overpowered or pushed (Targetjobs, 2015).
You know the inclination, we've all had it - when you're pushed beyond your limits at
work and somebody says (or does) something so inconsiderate or imbecilic that you just can't
take it any longer. Perhaps it doesn't transpire, however to your collaborator in the following
work area.
In any case, "work area anger" is the new term to depict that inclination (in spite of the
fact that it doesn't generally happen at a work area, obviously); in a late story in Psychology
Today, creator Ray B. Williams referred to some irritating insights about the pattern of brutality
in the working environment.
Williams says a study by Integra Reality Resources showing that 10 percent of American
specialists had seen physical brutality in their work environment. With roughly 100 million
individuals in America's work constrain, that is 10 million occurrences, a measurement
sufficiently terrifying to make you phone in wiped out.

With all that wrath out there, it isn't excessively astounding that most working Americans
have stories to tell about the work area rage they have seen or experienced; what takes after are
some exceptionally individual stories of those minutes when everything turns out badly at the
working environment (Jenny Peters, 2010).
3.4.Leadership/Management Skills.
Initiative aptitudes can be picked up in an assortment of customary and offbeat ways,
however it's not generally simple to express them on a paper. Showing your administration
capacities on paper obliges you to consider what it is you do as a pioneer and how you control
your representatives toward achievement. To give businesses a superior thought of what you've
finished, talk about the measure of the group and the extent of the tasks you oversee (Gausepohl,
Shannon, 2015 )
While there is some civil argument about whether authority is something individuals are
conceived with, these aptitudes manage your capacity to assume responsibility and deal with
your associates.
Goal-driven pioneer who keeps up a profitable atmosphere and unhesitatingly propels,
assembles, and mentors workers to meet elite gauges (Hansen & Katharine, 2015)
You may not be an administrator straight away, but rather graduates need to show
potential to spur groups and different associates that may work for them. It's about allocating
and appointing assignments well, setting due dates and driving by great illustration (Targetjobs,
2015).
On your resume: leads and coordinates others; educates/trains/teaches; directs/mentors;
oversees struggle; groups individuals set and accomplish objectives; assigns viably; settles on
and executes choices; upholds strategies; supervises ventures; measures group results
3.5.Planning/Organizing.
Manages your capacity to outline, arrange, sort out, and actualize ventures and errands

inside an assigned time span. Likewise includes objective setting.
Results-driven achiever with praiseworthy arranging and authoritative aptitudes,
alongside a high level of subtle element introduction (Hansen & Katharine, 2015)
This is about demonstrating that you can needs, work proficiently and beneficially, and
deal with your time well. It's likewise great to have the capacity to show bosses how you choose
what is essential to concentrate on and complete, and how you meet due dates. (Targetjobs,
2015).
In the event that the employment you need includes chipping away at exploration
ventures and companywide battles, you're going to need to flaunt your first class arranging
capacities. "Association aptitudes" may seem like a trite, abused filler term, yet those abilities
are the ones that will help you succeed. Show potential bosses you have what they're searching
for by sketching out your association in, and results from, ebb and flow and past activities
(Gausepohl, Shannon, 2015 )
While not a solitary characterizing attribute, strong authoritative aptitudes can be an
advantage for any specialist. They show a representative is self-sufficiently trained to
accumulate the fundamental data and information to keep his or her undertakings both very much
oversaw and on calendar — essential characteristics for any pioneer. Intense authoritative
abilities alone don't extraordinary chiefs make, yet they do drive work possibility to be more
expert, proficient and gainful.
(Steinberg, Scott, 2013)
Ready to arrange exercises and help them through adequately
(Bruce Woodcock, 2015))
On your resume: gauges/predicts; recognizes and assembles suitable assets; altogether
inquiries about foundation data; creates systems; thinks basically to take care of issues; handles
points of interest; facilitates and finishes assignments; oversees extends viably; meets due dates;

arranges and organizes exercises; multitasks; makes arranges.
3.6.Problem-Solving/Reasoning/Creativity/Decision-Making:
Is it accurate to say that you are clever and ready to inventively take care of issues that
will unavoidably emerge? Will you take responsibility for or abandon them for another person?
Includes the capacity to discover answers for issues utilizing your inventiveness,
thinking, and past encounters alongside the accessible data and assets.
Innovative issue solver who can produce workable arrangements and intention protests
(Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
You have to show a capacity to take a legitimate and explanatory way to deal with taking
care of issues and determining issues. It's likewise great to demonstrate that you can approach
issues from various edges (Targetjobs, 2015).
Critical thinking is an ability that sits some place at the
nexus of inventiveness, reasonability and rationale. The
individuals who show it exhibit a demonstrated capacity to
equitably translate approaching flags, and act both keenly and
with elegance when an answer is required. Specialists with
strong critical thinking aptitudes aren't simply key
masterminds; they ought to have the capacity to keep a calm attitude when a circumstance
emerges and remain focused without the requirement for smaller scale administration (Steinberg,
Scott, 2013).
Some individuals lean toward routine work that doesn't change every day, while others
get a surge from going up against new difficulties. Whatever your inclination, job patterns
demonstrate that more individuals than any other time in recent memory are working for
themselves and caring new obligations at organizations attempting to accomplish more with less

3.7. Analyzing and Investigating/Research Skills
Assemble data efficiently to build up truths and standards. Critical thinking (Bruce
Woodcock, 2015).
Manages your capacity to evaluate a circumstance, look for various points of view,
accumulate more data if essential, and distinguish key issues that should be tended to.
Highly expository speculation with showed ability for recognizing, examining,
enhancing, and streamlining complex work forms (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
3.8.Teamwork:
Will you function admirably in gatherings and groups? Will you be helpful and play an
administration part when suitable?
Since such a large number of employments include
working in one or more work-gatherings, you should be able
to work with others in an expert way while endeavoring to
accomplish a shared objective.
Resourceful cooperative person who exceeds
expectations at building trusting associations with clients and
partners (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
You'll have to demonstrate that you're a cooperative person additionally can oversee and
delegate to others and tackle obligation. It's about building positive working connections that
help everybody to accomplish objectives and business destinations (Targetjobs, 2015).

Development supports the fittest animals yet not the
most childish ones. Creatures and individuals alike
cooperate to tackle issues not on account of they are
powerless but rather in light of the fact that it is regularly
the most effective and profitable way. Solitary wolf sorts
dislike to hear this, but rather cooperation is an essential
piece of most workplaces (Mariya Pylayev, 2014).
Cooperation is about to work unhesitatingly inside a gathering (Bruce Woodcock, 2015).
3.9.Commercial mindfulness (or business keenness):
This is about knowing how a business or industry functions and what makes an
organization tick. Demonstrating that you have a comprehension of what the association needs
to accomplish through its items and administrations, and how it contends in its commercial
center (Targetjobs, 2015).
Comprehend the business substances influencing the association (Bruce Woodcock,
2015).
3.10. Information technology
All occupations ow require some fundamental comprehension of PC equipment and
programming, particularly word handling, spreadsheets, and email.
Computer-proficient entertainer with broad programming capability covering wide
assortment of utilizations (Hansen & Katharine, 2015).
Online networking is a standout amongst the most pervasive and popular aptitudes for
employments in an assortment of fields. Socially dynamic associations will probably draw in
top ability, drive new deals leads and better connect with different workers and clients, said Amir
Zonozi, head of procedure at social engagement stage Zoomph. Along these lines, when bosses
search for new contracts, they're additionally normally searching for new inner brand ministers.

Zonozi noticed that, for positions that specifically include chip away at corporate online
networking effort, contracting supervisor’s affection to see solid numbers and measurements,
including Web movement, group of onlookers compass and general engagement.
Notwithstanding for nonsocial-media-related positions, you can in any case show your
experience by referencing particular systems and online networking administration programs
you routinely utilize (Gausepohl, Shannon, 2015 ).
On your resume: oversees online networking effort; measures and dissects crusade
results; recognizes and interfaces with industry influencers; sparkles social discussion inside the
brand's group; makes and executes content systems; drives engagement and leads; upgrades
brand picture through social nearness.
3.11. Perseverance and inspiration/Initiative/Self-Motivation:
It is safe to say that you are inspired and devoted to taking care of business, regardless?
Will you be upright and do your best work?
Businesses need individuals to have a touch of get-up-and-go. Working life presents
numerous difficulties and you have to show businesses that
you're the sort of individual who will discover a path through,
notwithstanding when difficulties arise... what's more, stay
brightest (Targetjobs, 2015).
Once in a while it can feel like the general population
who excel do as such on unadulterated ability. You can rest
guaranteed that while a moment, minuscule part of individuals have been managed a fortunate
hand most have their diligent work to thank for their achievements.
That is extraordinary news in light of the fact that once you dispose of your self-hatred,
you can start to progress in the direction of something awesome (Mariya Pylayev, 2014).
Ready to follow up on activity, recognize opportunities and proactive in advancing

thoughts and (Bruce Woodcock, 2015).
3.12. Self-Confidence:
Do you genuinely trust you can carry out the employment?
Will you anticipate a feeling of quiet and motivate trust in others?
Will you have the valor to make inquiries that should be asked and
to openly contribute your thoughts?
In the working environment you have to strike the equalization of being certain about
yourself however not pompous, but rather additionally have trust in your partners and the
organization you work for (Targetjobs, 2015).
How you walk, your way of talking, your dress, and the trouble of the difficulties you
seek after – these are measures of your self-assurance. Assuming
that you are fit for accomplishing something is a large portion of
the fight, trust it or not, and tragically, individuals with low self-
regard tend to think little of their capability. It's a deceptive cycle
3.13. Time Management Abilities
Do you know how to organize undertakings and work on
various diverse ventures without a moment's delay? Will you
utilize your time at work carefully?
Poor time administration can make you feel like every
one of your obligations are planning to bring you down. You're
fatigued and dependably in a surge. "Another meeting?" you
think, freezing, understanding that you've just checked one thing
off your schedule and its past lunchtime. There runs your center
and with it your profitability – the descending winding.

Whether you're a chronic slacker or experience difficulty organizing, you'll discover the
intelligence of the accompanying scholars entirely immortal. (Simply check your logbook to
ensure you're not going to miss a phone call.) (Mariya Pylayev, 2014).
Time administration is to oversee time adequately, organizing undertakings and ready
to work to due dates (Bruce Woodcock, 2015).
3.14. Ability to Accept and Learn From Criticism:
Will you have the capacity to handle feedback? Is it accurate to say that you are coachable
and open to learning and developing as a man and as an expert?
Feedback can make you squirm regardless of how great you are at your occupation.
Regardless of the fact that you pleasantly search out feedback, it's
difficult to abstain from feeling stung when your work is by and
large unbiasedly, impartially examined and your defects
uncovered.
Be that as it may, truly, most things should dependably be
possible better and getting and gaining from feedback is one of the
most ideal approaches to make sense of how. Simply consider it
an insightful signal that somebody took an ideal opportunity to
process your work and offer you
guidance. Look at what the
accompanying five splendid
specialists, pioneers and thinker
think about feedback and don't
hesitate to share their considerations on online networking (Mariya Pylayev, 2014).

Table 1 Top Ten Skills Shortages Among Graduates
4. Summary:
Employability skills are the critical tools and traits you need to succeed in the workplace
-- and they are all elements that you can learn, cultivate, develop, and maintain over your
lifetime. Once you have identified the sought-after skills and values and assessed the degree to
which you possess, they remember to document them and market them (in your resume, cover
letter, and interview answers) for job-search success.
3.14.1.The “Top Ten” Skills shortages among graduates
% of employers
surveyed
1 Commercial Awareness 67%
2 Communication Skills 64%
3 Leadership 33%
4 Ability to work in a team 33%
5 Problem solving 32%
6 Conceptual ability 21%
7 Subject Knowledge & competence 19%
8 Foreign languages 19%
9 Numeracy 19%
10 Good general education 15%
Source: Association of Graduate Recruiters “Skills for Graduates in the 21st
Century” www.agr.org.uk

5. Discussion Questions:
6. Key words:
Skills, Communications, Management, Problem solving, Teamwork & Career.
7. References
Bruce Woodcock. (2015). What are the top ten skills that employers want? United Kingdom:
University of Kent.
Gausepohl, Shannon. (2015 ). job skills. United States: Business News Daily.
Hansen, R. S., & K. H. (2015). What Do Employers Really Want? Top Skills and Values
Employers Seek from Job-Seekers. job-skills-values, 7.
Jenny Peters. (2010, Nov 12th). Career Skills. Desk Rage: Completely Losing It at Work, p. 9.
Lorenz, Kate. (2009, Jan 26). Career Skills. top-10-soft-skills-for-job-hunters, p. 7.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 12th). Career Skills. Strong Work Ethic: Path to Success, p. 3.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 10th). Career Skills. Positivity! Give Yourself A Lift and Pass It On,
p. 4.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 10th). Career Skills. Talk The Walk: Good Communication To Pass
Along, p. 3.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 11th). Career Skills. Timeless Reflections On Time Management, p.
1 What do you understand by the Skills?
2 Do you know the importance of each skills in our career?
3 How much skills effect our career?
4 What do you think which Skills is more important?
5 Why that skill is more important in our career?

5.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 13th). Career Skills. Problem Solving: Thoughts On Critical
Thinking, p. 3.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 11th). Career Skills. Don't Be Selfish: Pass On The Team Spirit , p.
5.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 14th). Career Skills. The Art Of Receiving Criticism , p. 4.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 14th). Careers Skills. Flex Your Mind: Be More Adaptable, p. 3.
Mariya Pylayev. (2014, Feb 13th). Crrier Skills. Self-Confidence Pick-Me-Ups , p. 3.
Steinberg, Scott. (2013). 7 Key Job Skills to Look for When Hiring. Job Skills, 3.
Targetjobs. (2015, july 1). The top 10 skills that'll get you a job when you graduate. Retrieved
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top-10-skills-thatll-get-you-a-job-when-you-graduate

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