Skills and employability requirements of today
Introduction
Today’s workplace demands that entry-level workers be able to operate independently, using problem-solving and decision-making skills. The need for worker collaboration and teamwork requires employees to be creative, flexible, and possess good interpersonal and managerial skills. The reference to interpersonal skills points to yet another reason for the changes in the employability skill needs of today's workplace: the increasingly multicultural nature of the workforce. Corporations have also changed colors. Good interpersonal skills will be more in demand the more multicultural the workforce becomes. A final reason for the increased interest in equipping young people with basic, higher-order, and affective skills is the growing awareness of what happens when great numbers of people lack these qualifications.
Employability skills are the attitudes and behaviours of employees (other than technical competence), that employers see as valuable in the actual work place. These employability skills include reading, basic arithmetic and other basic skills like problem solving, decision making, and other higher-order thinking skills as well as dependability, a positive attitude, cooperativeness, and other human skills that make an employer a contributor to the company and not like an rotten egg in a corner when clients come.
Employability Skills are not job specific. They are skills which cut horizontally across all employment sectors and vertically across all jobs from entry level to chief executive officer. Although the critical employability skills identified by employers vary considerably in the way they are organized, there is a great deal of agreement among the skills and traits identified.
The concept of Employability has recently gained recognition in the corporate world. Employability is the ability of an individual to be employed. It is an individual’s capability to get employment not only because he has a degree also because he possesses
Today’s workplace demands that entry-level workers be able to operate independently, using problem-solving and decision-making skills. The need for worker collaboration and teamwork requires employees to be creative, flexible, and possess good interpersonal and managerial skills. The reference to interpersonal skills points to yet another reason for the changes in the employability skill needs of today's workplace: the increasingly multicultural nature of the workforce. Corporations have also changed colors. Good interpersonal skills will be more in demand the more multicultural the workforce becomes. A final reason for the increased interest in equipping young people with basic, higher-order, and affective skills is the growing awareness of what happens when great numbers of people lack these qualifications.
Employability skills are the attitudes and behaviours of employees (other than technical competence), that employers see as valuable in the actual work place. These employability skills include reading, basic arithmetic and other basic skills like problem solving, decision making, and other higher-order thinking skills as well as dependability, a positive attitude, cooperativeness, and other human skills that make an employer a contributor to the company and not like an rotten egg in a corner when clients come.
Employability Skills are not job specific. They are skills which cut horizontally across all employment sectors and vertically across all jobs from entry level to chief executive officer. Although the critical employability skills identified by employers vary considerably in the way they are organized, there is a great deal of agreement among the skills and traits identified.
The concept of Employability has recently gained recognition in the corporate world. Employability is the ability of an individual to be employed. It is an individual’s capability to get employment not only because he has a degree also because he possesses