Employability Skills Questionnaire

We encourage you to spend five minutes to complete this questionnaire as it will give you an understanding of your current workplace skills and how they relate to the employability skills valued by employers. This understanding can help you to prepare to enter the world of full time employment.

Employability skills are defined as the skills required to gain employment or to progress within a business or expand employment capability.

Why are employability skills important?

• Employers generally view employability skills, along with technical skills, as highly desirable for employees
• Employability skills can assist employees gain jobs, perform effectively at work and win promotions
• Employability skills can also lead to success in other domains in life

The eight employability skills are:

• Initiative and enterprise
• Learning
• Self management
• Communication
• Team work
• Problem solving
• Planning and organizing
• Technology

The following questionnaire will highlight for you the skills that employers seek from potential applicants. Some understanding of these skills and how you might practically apply these in a workplace will increase your attractiveness and potential to any employer when you enter the world of full time employment.

Once completed, the results of the questionnaire will provide you with an indication of your current level of employability skills based on your current work experience. The results will also provide you with an indication of improvement opportunities for you to enhance your current employability skills.

This overview can be used to support the development of your resume, interview techniques and responses to assist you in your career search.