Employment Skills
By: Thiru Thirunavukarasu
Introduction
In my essay I will talk about the skills required to get a good job
nowadays. There will be three main points I will be discussing such as academic,
personal management, and teamwork skills. I will give you examples of these
skills, and reasons why this skill is important for you to get a job.
Academic Skills
Academic skills are probably the most important skill you will need to
get a job. It is one of the or the first thing an employer looks for in an
employee. They are skills which give you the basic foundation to acquire, hold
on to, and advance in a job, and to achieve the best results. Academic skills
can be further divided into three sub-groups; communication, thinking, and
learning skills.
Communicate. Communication skills require you to understand and speak
the languages in which business is conducted. You must be a good listener, and
be able to understand things easily. One of the most important communicating
skills would be reading, you should be able to comprehend and use written
materials including things such as graphs, charts, and displays. One of the
newest things we can add to communicating skills would be the Internet, since it
is so widely used all around the world - you should have a good understanding of
what it is and how to use it.
Think. Thinking critically and acting logically to evaluate situations
will get you far in your job. Thinking skills consists of things such as
solving mathematical problems, using new technology, instruments, tools, ...