Identifying Your Skills for Job Applications

Understanding your skills and how they can be used in the workplace is important when looking for and progressing in work. In this webinar we will cover:

Why it’s important to understand your skills and how they can be used in the workplace

• How skills are transferrable between different occupations
• Understanding the difference between “hard” and “soft” skills
• How understanding your skills can enhance the relevance and quality of your CV and job applications
• Useful tools including the Skills Health Check which can help you to identify your strengths and skills and broaden your career horizons
• How the National Careers Service can support you to reach your career goals

This event will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. For new customers, we recommend that you have an appointment with a National Careers Adviser before the webinar takes place.

In the appointment, depending on your needs, the National Careers Service Adviser can help you to:

• explore different careers and options
• review your strengths, skills and develop your career goals
• plan your next steps
• make the best use of high-quality, career-related tools
• understand the local job market
• access learning, training, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, including making applications
• develop your CV, interview skills and job searching techniques
• implement your plan of action

By giving us your personal information, you are consenting to be contacted by telephone or email by the National Careers Service to arrange an appointment with a careers adviser prior to the webinar.