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Career: Realising your potential outside academia
Identify, gain confidence in and sell your skills
Clare Brophy & Sarah McCowenStaff Career Coaching Service
RS Skills
• Choose one of those activities (whole group)
• What skills are involved in doing that activity?
My personal skills
• What evidence do I have of the skills listed?
• Working alone, make a record of your evidence.
Top 10 skills employers want
• Flexibility and capacity to cope with change
• Self-motivation• Analytical ability and decision-making• Communication and interpersonal skills• Team-working ability
Self awareness
Top 10 skills employers want
• Organisation, planning and prioritising• Commercial/sector knowledge• Ability to innovate• Mental and physical resilience• Leadership qualities
Self-awareness
Skills recruiters struggle to find
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Commercial awareness
• Problem solving
• Risk taking and enterprise
• Managing learning and career
What employers value about RS
‘Analytical thinking, report writing and ability to work independently.’
‘Good learning skills, commitment to task, need for minimal supervision.’
‘Good communication and presentation skills demonstrated by teaching experience.’
Source: University Researchers, Employers’ Attitudes and Recruitment Practices (Wright, 2000)
STAR
Situation – what was happening at the time?
Target – what needed to change?Action – what did you do?Result – what happened as a result of
your action? Did you save time, money, increase output? Be specific