EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS: BRIDGING THE TALENT GAP
Employability skills can be understood as the transferable skills needed by an individual to make them ‘employable’. Along with good technical understanding and subject knowledge, employers often outline a set of skills that they want from an employee. The important issue is y ou have completed your degree, you have the technical skills associated with that role, but do you have the ‘soft skills' that can be transferred between different employment sectors and ensure you are successful at interview? These skills are what they believe will equip the employee to carry out their role to the best of their ability. Employability depends on your knowledge, skills and attitudes, how you use those assets, and how you present them to employers. Some of the employability skills that employer seek these days are commitment towards organization and job, effective communication skills, Interpersonal skills, leadership qualities, right attitude towards the profession, integrity, decision-...