4. Conference board employability skills profile

  • Academic Skills
    • Communicate
    • Think
    • Learn
  • Personal Management Skills
    • Positive Attitudes and Behaviours
    • Responsibility
    • Adaptability
  • Teamwork Skills
    • Work with Others

5. Skills list from workplace basics: The skills employers want

  • 3R's, Reading, Writing, Computation
  • Learning to learn
  • Communication: Listening and Oral Communication
  • Creative Thinking/Problem Solving
  • Interpersonal/Negotiation/Teamwork
  • Self-Esteem/Goal Setting-Motivation/Personal and Career Development
  • Organizational Effectiveness/Leadership

6. American college testing workKeys specifications

  • Locating and Using Information
  • Reading for Information
  • Listening
  • Writing
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Teamwork
  • Applied Technology (assessed as problem-solving skills)
  • Observation