Selling your experience

Selling your Study Abroad experience

Key employability attributes (personal characteristics) that employers look for that can be developed and enhanced on a study abroad programme:

Key employability skills experienced and developed while abroad :

Self management your readiness to accept responsibility,
- flexibility,
- resilience,
- self-starting,
- appropriate assertiveness,
- time management,
- readiness to improve your own performance based on feedback and reflective learning
Team working
- respecting others,
- co-operating,
- negotiating,
- persuading,
- contributing to discussions,
- your awareness of interdependence with others
Communication, literacy and numeracy
- ability to produce clear, structured written work
- oral literacy, including listening and questioning skills
- Application of I.T.
Problem-solving:
- analysing facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and
- identifying and selecting appropriate solutions
- Entrepreneurship / enterprise

Recording and communicating your experience:

Be specific: 5 Ws (Who? What? When? Why? Where? )
CAR (Context Action Result)
Swansea Employability Award & Swansea International Award (please email s.a.matthews@swansea.ac.uk for more information)

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