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Employability Skills Help You Succeed at School

Practising personal management, communication and teamwork employability skills at school will prepare you to use them at work.
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Identify Your Work-Specific Skills

The better you can describe your skills and accomplishments, the stronger the impression you’ll make on potential employers.
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Transferable Skills for Post-Secondary Students

If you are a post-secondary student working toward a general degree such as a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science, or if you have completed your degree, you have important skills employers need.
Plan Your Career

Essential Skills Profiles

Essential skills profiles describe how workers in various occupations use each of the key essential skills.
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About Skills

You can get many of the skills you need through education and training programs. Some skills are transferable. You can use them in many different types of work. Others are work-specific.
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Recognize Your Strengths

Your strengths are the things you’re passionate about, not just the things you’re good at. You may be good at writing, but writing would be one of your real strengths only if you love doing it. Real strengths combine your passion and your ability.
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Build Job Skills Employers Want to See on Your Resumé

It’s a skills-based world out there. Many employers can be very specific about what career skills they want. Find out how to prove that you have what it takes to do the job.
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Know Your Employability Skills and How to Sell Them

Knowing how to identify and market your employability skills will help you impress potential employers and improve your chances of landing the job you want.
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