Qualities and skills — Transcript

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1. 0:00everyone has a set of personal qualities
2. 0:02a personal quality is something a person
3. 0:04possesses or has learned through past
4. 0:06experience for example they might be
5. 0:08reliable punctual or enthusiastic
6. 0:11another person might be enthusiastic
7. 0:13creative and have a good sense of humor
8. 0:16it is important to identify personal
9. 0:18qualities they're good things to include
10. 0:19in your resume and employers will often
11. 0:22ask about the qualities you possess
12. 0:24skills and qualities are two different
13. 0:26things qualities are about you as a
14. 0:29person and skills are about what you've
15. 0:31learned and applied in the past one
16. 0:34example of a skill is using a computer
17. 0:36you might use word processing at a high
18. 0:38level of skill or you might be a
19. 0:39beginner other examples are brick laying
20. 0:42engineering architecture filing writing
21. 0:44bookkeeping and so on in addition to
22. 0:47those specific skills there are what are
23. 0:49called employability skills these are
24. 0:52the skills employers say they value most
25. 0:55from employees they include skills such
26. 0:57as teamwork planning initiative written
27. 1:00and verbal communication skills
28. 1:02supervision leadership problem solving
29. 1:05skills learning skills and Technology
30. 1:08usually you will find your skills and
31. 1:10personal qualities align fairly well for
32. 1:12example if you're an accountant or
33. 1:14bookkeeper you will have accounting and
34. 1:16bookkeeping skills and skills to operate
35. 1:18an accounting program you'll also have
36. 1:21learned good problem solving skills the
37. 1:24qualities you possess that would make
38. 1:25your job successful could be accuracy
39. 1:27attention to detail honesty and being a
40. 1:30good communicator that doesn't mean
41. 1:31these are all the qualities a person has
42. 1:33they will have more qualities but these
43. 1:35are the ones important to their job this
44. 1:38is just one example sometimes it can be
45. 1:41hard to decide if something is a
46. 1:42personal quality or a skill having a
47. 1:45good phone manner where you strike the
48. 1:47right combination of friendliness
49. 1:49politeness helpfulness and efficiency
50. 1:51that's a skill but it might also be seen
51. 1:53as a personal quality in borderline
52. 1:56cases like this you can call it either
53. 1:58as long as you include it in your resume
54. 2:01when looking for employment one of the
55. 2:03most important things you can do is sort
56. 2:05out your own personal qualities and
57. 2:08skills
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