EMPLOYABILITY

What is employability?

Employability is about being able to gain and maintain employment. Nowadays employers not only require subject knowledge, qualifications and job specific skills but also expect their employees to be ‘work ready’. Employability is about possessing a range of expected skills and qualities that equip you to carry out a job as best you can. These are generic transferable skills and qualities that are essential to be able to do almost any job. These include but are not limited to: –

Skills

Communication

Team-working

Problem-solving

Organisational

Computer literacy

Functional skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Qualities

Positive outlook

Enthusiasm

Motivation

Good personal presentation

Time keeping

Flexibility

Initiative

Don’t have many of these? Don’t worry, there are lots of opportunities to gain these skills and qualities such as volunteering, taking on extra responsibility in leisure or home activities and community engagement. Here at THE KEY, we can help assess your current skills and qualities and formulate a plan to develop those valuable others.

Contact us using the ‘contact us’ section below for further information.