What Skills a Graduate Needs to Have To Get Better Employment
Opportunity
Part
I
Many students
apply for college without having a clear career path in mind. However, some
freshmen start their studies with the sense of relief that high-school is over
and that they are at the right place for attaining the skills they are going to
need on the way to the top in career and life. The years spent at acquiring a
university degree can be useful in acquiring the skillset needed for getting
employed when school is over. Usually, the personal growth of gigantic
proportions is something most young adults experienced while at college in
their early twenties. Moreover, a great many employable skills can come out of
this sometimes-grueling process.
The extensive
list of skills that hiring agents look for in a graduate most certainly
includes transferable skills like motivation, analytical skills and
organization. Also, skills gained at college like teamwork that a student
needed to perpetuate at those project assignments or the empathy they showed
during the protest for climate change can come in useful at the starting point
of your hopefully long and prosperous career.
Proper insight
at what is needed to win that first job may be gained at some internship
program you could have done while still in college. Some of the skills that
could have been pointed out would include commercial awareness,
problem-solving, organization and motivation.
Commercial awareness
This shows how
well you as an outsider were able to research and educate yourself for the
industry you want to master. Fortunately, information is an asset highly
accessible to everyone in 2020 and especially to you as a college graduate.
Here you can show that you have done your homework in finding out about the
company, its market share, chief competitors or simply that you grasp where
they are headed.
Problem-solving
It is a
respected and skill in high demand since nobody can predict when things can go
south for a project, product or company. It is needed that you show your
competence in this area. Being young and inexperienced is an advantage when it
comes to solving problems. The young tend to think without the burden of
previous mistakes. This approach can lead to productive solutions that lift
everybody. Make sure to think and devise a tactic to present this skill to your
desired employer.
Organization
More often than
not is a skill you have never known you had. If you think about it for some
time it can occur to you that you juggled through lectures, assignments and
maybe charity projects and were able to do it all maybe date somebody while you
were at university. This exactly is what constitutes the skill of organization,
making time to do things and having time to let things happen.
Perseverance and motivation
These two tell
you and the world around you, why you do whatever you do. Moreover, when these
are left opaque, a person can be drowned in the whirlpool of pointless duty and
obligation. Some are misguidedly under the impression that they are being
useful but they never reach their full potential. Every person should stand a
chance at doing their best with what they have got. To give your best to some
project or business role one should align it with their motivation.
The debate among
job-seekers revolves around what is more important “soft skills” or “hard
skills”. Maybe the question should be transformed into, what kind of mixture of
skills is needed for the job. Most job ads do not state what soft skills are
needed, in this case, double check whether your application meets the job
requirements from the angle of hard skills and then supplement your application
with the right soft skills. All of this may be worth your while since you spent
years attaining your degree without proper guidance on what you are going to
need for the job hunt.