Skills audit
(From the World Economic Forum The Future of Jobs report)
Co-ordinating with others
Interpersonal skills
Working collaboratively
Using team strengths, awareness of weaknesses
Communication skills
Working with diverse teammates
Complex problem-solving
Ability to solve new and ill-defined problems in a changing environment
Working with incomplete, contradictory or changing data
Ability to see the big picture and the finer details
Critical thinking
Ability to think logically
Show reasoning, weighing up pros and cons
Focus on an issue and consider solutions
Creativity
Make connections between disparate information
Bring ideas together to make something new
Think flexibly and adaptively
People management
Ability to motivate and coach others
Leadership skills
Interpersonal skills
Ability to delegate
Ability to build professional relationships
now?
Emotional intelligence
Ability to recognise and adjust to own and others’ emotions
Self-control and resilience in the face of strong emotion
Self-motivation
Interpersonal skills
Judgement and decision-making
Assess data quality
Interrogate information for actionable insight
Excel skills
Service orientation
Actively look for ways to provide and improve ‘customer’ service
Anticipate requirements
Flexibility, adaptable
Negotiation
Listening and communication skills
Building professional relationships/rapport
Solution-focused (compromise)
Cognitive flexibility
Recognise and switch between different ways of thinking (creative, critical, logical etc)
Assess information to spot patterns and connections
Think outside your ‘comfort zone’
Find opportunities to help you develop your skills
Work experience: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/students/work-experience/index.aspx
Volunteering: https://www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/volunteering/
Students’ Union: https://www.su.nottingham.ac.uk/
Nottingham Advantage Award: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/careers/students/advantageaward/index.aspx