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    The Top 10 Skills That'll Get You A Job When You Graduate

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    The top 10 skills that graduate recruiters look for are: 1) Commercial awareness, 2) Communication, 3) Teamwork, 4) Negotiation and persuasion, 5) Problem solving, 6) Leadership, 7) Organisation, 8) Perseverance and motivation, 9) Ability to work under pressure, and 10) Confidence. Other important skills include managing up and dealing with conflict, which recent graduates often lack. However, most employers are willing to provide training to help graduates develop these soft skills within the first year.

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    The Top 10 Skills That'll Get You A Job When You Graduate

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    The top 10 skills that graduate recruiters look for are: 1) Commercial awareness, 2) Communication, 3) Teamwork, 4) Negotiation and persuasion, 5) Problem solving, 6) Leadership, 7) Organisation, 8) Perseverance and motivation, 9) Ability to work under pressure, and 10) Confidence. Other important skills include managing up and dealing with conflict, which recent graduates often lack. However, most employers are willing to provide training to help graduates develop these soft skills within the first year.

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    The top 10 skills that graduate recruiters look for are: 1) Commercial awareness, 2) Communication, 3) Teamwork, 4) Negotiation and persuasion, 5) Problem solving, 6) Leadership, 7) Organisation, 8) Perseverance and motivation, 9) Ability to work under pressure, and 10) Confidence. Other important skills include managing up and dealing with conflict, which recent graduates often lack. However, most employers are willing to provide training to help graduates develop these soft skills within the first year.

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    The Top 10 Skills That'll Get You A Job When You Graduate

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    The top 10 skills that graduate recruiters look for are: 1) Commercial awareness, 2) Communication, 3) Teamwork, 4) Negotiation and persuasion, 5) Problem solving, 6) Leadership, 7) Organisation, 8) Perseverance and motivation, 9) Ability to work under pressure, and 10) Confidence. Other important skills include managing up and dealing with conflict, which recent graduates often lack. However, most employers are willing to provide training to help graduates develop these soft skills within the first year.

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    The top 10 skills that'll get you a job when

    you graduate
    https://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice/career-planning

    Have you got the key skills graduate employers look for? You'll need to give examples of
    these essential competencies in your job applications and interviews to impress recruiters
    and get hired.

    Graduate employers place a lot of emphasis on finding candidates with the right skills and
    competencies for their organisations. Depending on the career sector and profession you
    choose to work in, there could be very specific skills, abilities and knowledge needed to do
    the job. However, complementing these are general competencies and behaviours that are
    essential for successful working. These are the key employability skills – the core skills that
    will make you effective at work, whatever job you do. They are sometimes known as
    transferable skills because you develop them over time and take them with you as your
    career develops; think of them as your passport to career success. You'll need to draw on
    your work experience to give evidence of these skills.

    The top ten skills graduate recruiters want


    1. Commercial awareness (or business acumen)

    This is about knowing how a business or industry works and what makes a company tick.
    Showing that you have an understanding of what the organisation wants to achieve through
    its products and services, and how it competes in its marketplace.

    2. Communication

    This covers verbal and written communication, and listening. It's about being clear, concise
    and focused; being able to tailor your message for the audience and listening to the views of
    others.

    3. Teamwork

    You'll need to prove that you're a team player but also have the ability to manage and
    delegate to others and take on responsibility. It's about building positive working
    relationships that help everyone to achieve goals and business objectives.

    4. Negotiation and persuasion

    This is about being able to set out what you want to achieve and how, but also being able to
    understand where the other person is coming from so that you can both get what you want
    or need and feel positive about it.
    5. Problem solving

    You need to display an ability to take a logical and analytical approach to solving problems
    and resolving issues. It's also good to show that you can approach problems from different
    angles.

    6. Leadership

    You may not be a manager straight away, but graduates need to show potential to motivate
    teams and other colleagues that may work for them. It's about assigning and delegating
    tasks well, setting deadlines and leading by good example.

    7. Organisation

    This is about showing that you can prioritise, work efficiently and productively, and
    manage your time well. It's also good to be able to show employers how you decide what is
    important to focus on and get done, and how you go about meeting deadlines.

    8. Perseverance and motivation

    Employers want people to have a bit of get-up-and-go. Working life presents many
    challenges and you need to show employers that you're the kind of person who will find a
    way through, even when the going gets tough... and stay cheerful-ish.

    9. Ability to work under pressure

    This is about keeping calm in a crisis and not becoming too overwhelmed or stressed.

    10. Confidence

    In the workplace you need to strike the balance of being confident in yourself but not
    arrogant, but also have confidence in your colleagues and the company you work for.

    Other key skills that graduate recruiters look for


    The 2017 annual report from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE), formerly known as
    the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR), identified a new key skill that is in short
    supply among graduate hires: managing up, which means building a positive relationship
    with your manager and providing support so that you can work effectively together to meet
    the goals of the organisation. ISE members who took part in its annual survey, including
    many big graduate recruiters, reported that only 4% of their graduate hires could offer this
    skill at the point of hiring. Another skill which is important to recruiters is dealing with
    conflict, something the ISE survey found that only one in ten graduate hires is already able
    to do.
    On the positive front, graduate employers expect to provide training to their graduate hires
    to make up any shortfall in soft skills. According to ISE, most employers believe that most
    key soft skills can be learnt within a year.

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