Employability Skills Self-Assessment (Week 1-WRS)Worksheet 1

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📚 Part 1: Understanding Employability Skills

1. What are employability skills? (Choose the BEST answer)

Skills you only learn at university

Personal qualities and abilities that help you get and keep a job

Technical skills specific to one job

Skills you're born with

2. Which of these are examples of employability skills? (Tick ALL that apply)

Communication

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Time management

Being reliable

Adaptability

3. Why are employability skills important? Explain in 1-2 sentences.

4. Give an example of when you have used teamwork skills (at school, home, or elsewhere):

5. Rate your confidence in these employability skills (1 = Not confident, 5 = Very confident):

Communication Skills: Circle one: 1 2 3 4 5

Teamwork: Circle one: 1 2 3 4 5

Problem-solving: Circle one: 1 2 3 4 5

Time management: Circle one: 1 2 3 4 5

Being reliable: Circle one: 1 2 3 4 5

6. Which employability skill do you think is your strongest? Why?

7. Which employability skill would you most like to improve? How could you work on this?

8. After today's group discussion, write down ONE new thing you learned about employability skills:

9. Think of a job you might be interested in. What employability skills would be most important for that job?

Job: ________________________

10. Set yourself ONE goal for improving an employability skill over the next month:

My goal: I will improve my _________________ skill by _________________________________