Identifying key skills
Everyone has skills, but it’s not always easy to spot them or explain them to others.
This guide will show you which skills are most useful in today’s job market and how your child might already be building them.
Everyone has skills, but it’s not always easy to spot them or explain them to others.
This guide will show you which skills are most useful in today’s job market and how your child might already be building them.
As the world of work changes, it’s less about having one “job for life” and more about having a set of skills that can be used in lots of different roles. The more adaptable young people are, the more opportunities they’ll have.
Employers are looking for a mix of abilities, such as problem-solving, teamwork and communication, as well as practical and technical skills.
Whether it’s basic soft skills or technical hard skills, we are all good at something but figuring out what these are and communicating them isn’t always easy. Use this resource to identify key skills in demand by employers and how your child may already be developing some of these.
Complete our interactive activity to understand the wealth of skills needed for future aspirations and how often they are required within employment.
These are the top key skills that employers are always on the lookout for.
