1 Employability skills for career resilience

Employability skills help to make you more employable, strengthening your career resilience. Each role requires a specific range of skills, and when you are considering a new job or career change, analysing these skills and comparing them with your own skillset is a good place to start.

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This decorative photo shows a pyramid of small wooden blocks, each with a word and image on its face. The words are: communication, solution, partnership, vision, direction, strategy, success, goal and teamwork. A hand is placing the final block at the top of the pyramid, and it is labelled ‘leadership’.

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During this course you have learned that some employability skills are particularly helpful in supporting your career resilience. These include:

• planning and preparation
• communication skills
• problem solving.

Developing these skills will be another way to build your career resilience.