Employability skills audit
Rating: Highlight your level of skill by circling the appropriate number:
1 = Never
5 = Always
Evidence: Identify an experience, or activity that you have been involved in that
demonstrates your ability in that skill
Skill
Communication
Description
Rating
Being able to give clear and
accurate information, using
appropriate language and style.
Listening to others and clarifying
your understanding.
Being able to write wellconstructed, well presented
essays, reports and letters for a
variety of audiences Being able to
present ideas and information
clearly, concisely and
appropriately to an audience
using appropriate technology.
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Being able to co-operate with
others on a shared task, being
aware of and adaptable to the
working styles of others, working
in teams
Teamworking
Personal Impact and
Confidence
Organisation and
Time Management
Numerical
Interpretation
Problem Solving
Evidence
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An attitude which allows positive
perception of ourselves and our
abilities
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Working in a methodical manner,
prioritising and using time
management, carrying out tasks
effectively for either yourself or
your team.
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To have confidence and
competence with numbers and
measures and to think and
express oneself effectively in
quantitative terms.
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Process by which an individual or
team works through the details of
a problem, utilising their creativity,
available resources, reasoning
and past experiences in order to
reach a solution.
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Ability to be adaptable and
Flexibility and
Adaptability
responsive to change in any given
situation or work environment, or
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in response to the needs, wishes
or demands of others.
Action Planning
Self-awareness
Initiative
Commercial
Awareness
IT
The process which will help to
focus your ideas and to decide
what steps need to be taken or
activities that must be performed.
To achieve particular goals.
Knowing your own strengths and
skills and having the confidence
to articulate them
The ability to act and make
decisions without the help or
advice of other people
Being able to demonstrate an
insight into how firms operate and
how this relates to the wider
business world
Being able to use appropriate IT
packages, e.g. word processing,
databases, spread sheets, Power
Point, web page construction, and
email
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You can use the blank boxes below to include any other skills you think will be useful to you.
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