Day 3 – Skills & Attributes: What Employers Are Looking For.

Friday, September 10

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Terms to understand:

  • Skill: your abilities; things you do well
  • Hard Skill:  technical abilities that are objectively quantified
  • Soft Skill: interpersonal/people skills; subjectively quantified
  • Attribute: a quality or particular characteristic

Task 1 Read/Compare the articles below and Answer the corresponding questions:

4 Skills Needed in 2017

Skills you need in 2021

  1. Identify the similarities between the years.
  2. Identify the differences between the years.
  3. List any skills you believe are missing.

Good explanation on Differentiating between Hard and Soft Skills

Task 2: Based on what you have read and believe, make a list of the skills and attributes that you believe employers are looking for and justify your selections. (minimum of 5 each)

Task 3: Determine and record your strengths and which are the areas you need to develop. For strengths, explain why these are your strengths and for the areas you need to develop explain how you can develop them.  Complete for both skills and attributes.

To be handed in via Teams and briefly discussed the following class.

If/when you are done take a look at an overview of the Employment Standards Act:

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