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What Employers Want Karen Holmes

What Employers Want By Karen Holmes

What Employers Want by Karen Holmes


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A unique handbook supporting school and college students to build on their employability skills and recognise their existing skills. Featuring case studies and practical activities throughout, it will help students improve their employment prospects by developing transferable skills and learning to articulate these effectively to future employers.

What Employers Want Summary

What Employers Want: The Employability Skills Handbook by Karen Holmes

Moving from school or college into work is one of the biggest steps you'll ever take. It's an exciting time but it's also a challenging one. Having spent most of your life in education - where you have to be whether you can think of better things to do - suddenly you're fighting off competition to get that crucial first job. But what skills are employers really looking for and what makes you employable?

Uniquely written for students and college leavers, What Employers Want is your practical one-stop shop to helping you identify and improve the skills, attitudes and behaviours required by today's employers. Helping you to secure your first job and equip you for the world of work, this handbook will guide you to:
  • Identify the skills you already possess and show you how to articulate these to future employers
  • Expand your range of existing abilities so that you become the sort of person an organisation wants to employ
  • Create a skills profile to use as a basis for job applications and to refer to before interviews

If you're looking for a job or about to start work, now you can ensure employers know just how capable you are - and why you're exactly the sort of person they need to hire.

New content for this edition includes: advice on developing the most sought-after personal characteristics and habits in the workplace, including the importance of determination, emotional intelligence and having a positive approach. It also includes brand new case studies from students and employers to help you with taking that important first step on the career ladder.

About Karen Holmes

Karen Holmes is a managing and training specialist. She has written extensively for the education market, including study modules, education packs, a number of careers titles, as well as articles for magazines and journals on careers development.

Table of Contents

About the author Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. What are skills? Chapter 2. What are your skills now? Chapter 3. The skills you need to have Chapter 4. Communication and interpersonal skills Chapter 5. Working as part of a team Chapter 6. Solving problems and making decisions Chapter 7. Using numbers Chapter 8. Using ICT Chapter 9. Improving your own learning Chapter 10. Write your own skills profile Chapter 11. Further information

Additional information

GOR009519265
9781911067528
1911067524
What Employers Want: The Employability Skills Handbook by Karen Holmes
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Crimson Publishing
2017-03-21
176
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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