Qualification details

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS QUALIFICATION SUMMARY 

Employability Skill 

Industry /enterprise requirements for this qualification include :

Communication

• Listening and understanding
• Speaking clearly and directly
• Reading and interpreting workplace related documentation
• Writing to audience needs
• Interpreting the needs of internal/external customers
• Applying numeracy skills to workplace requirements
• Establishing/using networks
• Sharing information
• Negotiating responsively

Teamwork

• Working as an individual and a team member
• Working with diverse individuals and groups
• Applying knowledge of own role as a part of a team
• Applying teamwork skills to a range of situations
• Identifying and using the strengths of other team members

Problem-solving

• Developing practical and creative solutions to workplace problems
• Showing interdependence and initiative in identifying problems
• Solving problems individually or in teams
• Applying a range of strategies in problem solving
• Using numeracy skills to solve problems
• Testing assumptions and taking context into account

Initiative and enterprise

• Adapting to new situations
• Being creative in response to workplace challenges
• Identifying opportunities that might not be obvious to others
• Generating a range of options in response to workplace matters
• Translating ideas into actions
• Developing a strategic, creative long-term vision

Planning and organising

• Collecting analysing and organising information
• Using basic business systems for planning and organising
• Being appropriately resourceful
• Taking initiative and making decisions within workplace role
• Participating in continuous improvement and planning processes
• Working within or establishing clear project goals and deliverables
• Determining or applying required resources
• Allocating people and other resources to tasks and workplace requirements
• Managing time and priorities
• Adapting resource allocations to cope with contingencies

Self-management

• Taking responsibility at the appropriate level

Learning

• Defining own learning needs
• Carrying out independent learning to improve capability

Technology

• Using technology and related workplace equipment
• Using technology to organise data