Employers today are searching for potential employees with strong "Employability Skills". What are those skills? According to the Conference Board of Canada, these transferable skills are:
- Fundamental Skills - The skills needed as a basis for further development
- Communicate
- Manage information
- Use numbers
- Think and solve problems
- Personal Management Skills - The personal skills, attitudes, and behaviours that drive one's potential for growth
- Demonstrate positive attitudes and behaviours
- Be responsible
- Be adaptable
- Learn continuously
- Work Safely
- Teamwork Skills - The skills and attributes needed to contribute productively
- Work with others
- Participate in projects and tasks