Being a student
Aims: organisational awareness
Organisational awareness and skills
Developing a range of general and specialist skills, which meet the needs of your organisation and are transferable to broader work contexts. Here are some examples:
- Try developing entrepreneurial skills
- Improve basic information technology skills like word processing, spreadsheets
- Develop a creative ability
- Develop financial skills, like the ability to read accounts or manage personal finances
- Develop project management skills
- Develop business skills that are transferable
- Increase business knowledge of organisations
- Develop specialist or advanced IT skills
- Learn to solve work problems effectively
- Learn about your strengths and weaknesses
- Develop assertiveness
- Learn to communicate in a professional environment, for example report writing
- Learn to be flexible and adaptable - take risks
- Show enthusiasm, motivation, flexibility and a willingness to learn
SMILE Preparing for placement by Leeds Metropolitan University Employability Office, modified by Marion Kelt GCU is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/metoffice/employability/resources/learning_objects/workexperience/index.htm