Your Skills, Strengths and Experience
Identify strengths, transferable skills and evidence from work, study and everyday life.
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Your Skills, Strengths and Experience
Your Skills, Strengths and Experience
You already have employability skills, even if you have never worked in creative media or software development. Study, caring responsibilities, hobbies, volunteering and personal projects can all provide evidence.
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What counts as a transferable skill
What counts as a transferable skill
Transferable skills can be used in many roles. Examples include communication, teamwork, planning, problem solving, creativity, accuracy, resilience and digital confidence. A designer may use creativity and client communication. A developer may use logical thinking and attention to detail.
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Skills & Strengths Challenge
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Complete your skills audit
Complete your skills audit
SKILLS AND MINDSET AUDIT
Rate yourself from 1 to 5 for communication, teamwork, organisation, problem solving, creativity, digital skills and reliability. For every rating of 3 or above, record one real example. For every rating below 3, identify one action that could improve it.
Then consider your mindset at work or during learning. Give one example of when a positive attitude, persistence or willingness to learn helped you deal with a challenge. Give one example of a negative or unhelpful response that could make a workplace situation worse.
For each example explain:
• the situation or challenge;
• the attitude or mindset shown;
• how this affected your behaviour or actions;
• the effect on other people, the task or outcome;
• what you learned from the experience.
Finally identify two areas you want to improve and give one realistic action for each.
Rate yourself from 1 to 5 for communication, teamwork, organisation, problem solving, creativity, digital skills and reliability. For every rating of 3 or above, record one real example. For every rating below 3, identify one action that could improve it.
Then consider your mindset at work or during learning. Give one example of when a positive attitude, persistence or willingness to learn helped you deal with a challenge. Give one example of a negative or unhelpful response that could make a workplace situation worse.
For each example explain:
• the situation or challenge;
• the attitude or mindset shown;
• how this affected your behaviour or actions;
• the effect on other people, the task or outcome;
• what you learned from the experience.
Finally identify two areas you want to improve and give one realistic action for each.
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Check your understanding
Check your understanding
1. Why is evidence stronger than a simple claim about a skill?
2. Give one skill useful in both creative media and software development.
3. What is meant by mindset in a learning or workplace context?
4. Give one example of how a positive mindset could improve an outcome.
5. How could a negative attitude affect colleagues or a task?
6. Which skill or behaviour will you develop first, and what action will you take?
2. Give one skill useful in both creative media and software development.
3. What is meant by mindset in a learning or workplace context?
4. Give one example of how a positive mindset could improve an outcome.
5. How could a negative attitude affect colleagues or a task?
6. Which skill or behaviour will you develop first, and what action will you take?