Skills Audit - you may hear them referred to as graduate skills, employability skills or transferable skills.

Name William Dowds Student 619956

number

Course Graphic Design w/ Interactive Multimedia Year of course 16/17

Date 01/02/17

The skills you will be thinking about have been identified by the
CBI (Confederation of British Industry) and the NUS (National
Union of Students) as the key skills which underpin success in
your working life.
(Working towards your future: Making the most of your time in higher education NUS/CBI 2011)

How do you rate your skills?

Think about how an employer might assess your skills when they are interviewing you.
Please rate on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being very confident and 1 not at all.

5 I am great at that and have lots of examples to prove it

4 People say Im good but Id find it hard to demonstrate to an employer

3 Not sure either way

2 Im OK but could do with some help to improve

1 I have no experience in this area and need to develop this skill

Positive Attitude
A positive attitude is the key foundation of employability. That type of attitude involves a readiness to take
part, openness to new activities and ideas and a desire to achieve results.

How I rate Examples I can use to demonstrate this How I can develop in this area
myself at this
(5 to 1)

3 One weeks work experience with a graphic Extra activities outside of college to
designer on various branding projects and get into
client meetings
 Skill How do I recognise How I Examples I can use to How I can develop in
this skill? rate demonstrate this skill this area
myself
at this
(circle
your
answer)

Self-manage Your readiness to 3 Have not failed to deliver on every Going the extra mile
ment accept responsibility, single project thus far whilst by constantly digging
flexibility, resilience, maintaining side projects in my away at projects
self-starting, own time before getting bogged
appropriate down in the part that I
assertiveness, time like
management,
readiness to improve
your own
performance based
on feedback and
reflective learning

Team Respecting others, 4 When in group discussions I listen Doing more group
working co-operating, to people and people listen to me work to fully grasp
negotiating, in the sense that when I have how well a good team
persuading, something to bring up, I contribute can work together
contributing to it, otherwise I will listen to what
discussions, your others have to say.
awareness of
interdependence with
others, working
together to achieve a
result.

Business Your basic 2 I know that through hard work and Work on some
and understanding of the perseverance business success is projects in which the
customer key drivers for possible however I do not know business side is
awareness business success and that techniques or have any addressed
the importance of experience in this
providing customer
 satisfaction and
building customer
loyalty.
(dont just think of
customers in the
commercial sense
think about anyone
you provide a service
to, eg patients or
students).

Skill How do I recognise How I Examples I can use to How I can develop in
this skill? rate demonstrate this skill this area
myself
at this
(circle
your
answer)

Problem Analysing facts and 4 I am a very good problem solver I must learn to identify
solving circumstances to as seen through various projects in when a problem arises
determine the cause which issues arise and I find instead of wasting my
of a problem and solutions that mostly in turn, time with something
identifying and become benefits to a design, my broken
selecting appropriate weakness in this area however is
solutions. Whats spotting the problem, as I can get
wrong and what can I distracted try to make a broken
do to help put it right? design to work

Communica Ability to produce 4 I can present my ideas with the Make certain that I
tion clear, structured reassurance that I know everything can break down my
written work. about what I have created and that view into more
Presentation skills, I can communicate with others consumable chunks
listening and when I need to however as to not ramble my
questioning skills. sometimes I fail to successfully get point
Am I able to express my point across leaving the
myself clearly so that recipients rather confused
people understand
what Im telling them?

Application Manipulation of 3 I can grasp when statistically a Work on areas where

of numeracy numbers, general route of development might yield mathematical
mathematical uncertain results and therefore awareness is
awareness and its need to make sure my ideas are prominent to gain
application in relevant and will be fruitful experience
practical contexts (eg however I am not fully confident in
estimating, applying
 formulae and spotting my ability to make the right
likely rogue figures). decisions

Application Basic IT skills, 4 Im confident with new technology Continue to work my

of including familiarity as such with new applications such way through relevant
information with commonly used as the adobe suite however I just technologies to gain
technology programmes. have not yet experienced experience on them
everything as technology is a fast
changing world and there are lots
of programs to become familiar
with

What support would you like from the University Centre to help you to continue to develop the skills that are
important to employers and enable you to demonstrate that you have them?

Just keep pushing importance of each skill and apply it where necessary for the opportunity to
familiarise myself with it, even if I dislike what needs to be done, as long as I get it done I will be thankful