CNCSP 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Computer Literacy, Linguistics, Critical Thinking
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What are skills: hard or technical skills, personality traits, can be areas of character, ethics, individual discipline, mix with your values, we acquire them through education, our life experiences, on the job training. Top five skills needed to be a successful worker. Language skills: diversity in people skills, computer literacy, team player (negotiate & network, flexibility and adaptability. Six of the top 10 reasons why people are fired. What are the 7 basic skill categories right out of college: verbal communication, time/self management, collaboration, professional, technological, critical thinking research, ethical reasoning. The average college graduate have 2000 - 8000 marketable skills. Identifying skills: expanding your skills vocabulary, examine others resumes or cs, skills lists in specific careers, thesaurus, brainstorm and list exercises, naming and identifying skills that are connected to your experiences and successes in life, dissecting your past. Power of skills: more than just what we put on our resume. Career manuel pg 43 - action verbs/skills set.