Using technology for employability and soft skills.
How to Use This Guide
Begin on this page and watch the short video about employability skills.
Then read the articles from reliable websites and from library databases to learn about the importance of soft skills. You may be asked to login with your campus username and password if you are working from home.
Use the interactive tools or activities to explore more about employability and soft skills.
1. Watch the Skills to Pay the Bills video to learn about soft skills. Click on the link to watch another short video about employability skills.
Employability skills include applied knowledge, workplace skills, and effective relationships. The U.S. Department of Education compiled the Employability Skills Framework and developed related tools, media and resources.
2. Read these articles to learn about the importance of soft skills. Use your campus username and password to access off campus.
Discusses the seven transferable skills to improve the opportunities of each worker of customizing their career. Topics include making quality decision by considering relevant information, improving a problem-solving approach, and reaching compromise through good-faith negotiations. Also mentioned innovation and creativity, collaboration among co-workers, and networking with talent.
Focuses on the challenges faced by employee recruiters in determining whether applicants have the soft skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century workplace. Topics discussed include the difficulties in developing employee soft skills or those abilities that cannot be quantified, such as the willingness to learn and the ability to function as part of a team, the ways in which soft skills affect productivity and the questions to ask to gauge whether an applicant has soft skills.
3. Use the Interactive Tools and Activities to Explore More about Employability and Soft Skills.
Use this check list from the Montana Career Guide to analyze your dependability, customer service, people skills, attitude, non-verbal and verbal communication, written communication, problem-solving, and teamwork.
Use this worksheet to rate your applied knowledge, workplace skills, and relationship skills. Then discuss the results with a career counselor or use during class discussions.
Mastering Soft Skills for Workplace Success from the U.S. Department of Labor. Includes activities for communication, attitude, teamwork, networking, problem-solving, and professionalism.
Watch short videos about communication, attitude, teamwork, networking, problem-solving, and professionalism from the United States Department of Labor.
