Employability Skills and Cultural Awareness

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AND CULTURAL AWARENESS

PRESENTED BY SANTA BENSONE

CONTENT Definition

The Issue

The Solution

Survey

Meaning for ESA-Students

Sources

DEFINITION

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

CULTURAL AWARENESS

WHAT ARE SKILLS ?

SKILLS

Require learning

Needed to perform certain tasks

Adjusted to circumstances

SKILLS

Types of skills:

Transferable/Functional

Personal Traits/Attitudes

Knowledge-based

Based on ability and aptitude

Developed in childhood and through life experience

Acquired through education, training and on-the-job experience

• Organize• Promote• Analyze• Write

• Patient• Diplomatic• Results-oriented• Independent

• Personnel Administration

• Contract Management• Accounting

WHAT IS CULTURE ?

CULTURE

Learning by

Trial-and-error Observing

CULTURE

“Social Animal”

“It makes a lot of sense that if I want to be part of this group, I will think and act and behave — and in this case feel — like the rest of my group members,”

“Mirror Neurons”

CULTURE

contagious behavior:

the unconscious transmission of actions or emotions from one individual to another.

Involve: emotions, actions, goals, knowledge and belief

CULTURE

the beliefs, customs and arts of a

particular society, group, place or time

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS CULTURAL AWARENESS

Being aware that differences exist in things such as education, technology, holidays, and values and having an ability to find things we have in common rather than focus on differences.

Generic skills and attributes that are required to gain employment and may be transferred from one situation to another

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

skills

Organizing and planning

Decision making Time

management

Professionalism

Working on your own initiative

Attention to quality

creativity

Problem solving

Data handling

AnalysingInvestigating/researching

Communicating

Writing

Speaking

Team workingCooperating

leading

CULTURAL AWARENESS

• EXPERIENCE• KNOWLEDGE

• BEHAVIOR• CULTURE

GROWING UP IN CERTAIN CULTURE

BEHAVING AS LEARNED

UNCONSCIOUSLY

LEARNING ABOUT OTHER

CULTURES

ACCEPTANCE TOWARDS OTHER

CULTURES

ISSUE

Growth of Global

Companies

Demanding Global Skills

Less Cultural

Awareness

Diversity not Accepted

SOLUTION

Abandon loss of diversity by:

• Ensuring freedom to get to know other cultures

• Global project accessible by everyone, to :

• push cultural exchange• increase interaction between different cultures

• lead to more knowledge

SURVEY

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Country Participants

Togo 1

Germany 14

USA 1

Latvia 5

Russia 2

England 1

Total 24

From February 8, 2015 to February 9, 2015

MEANING FOR ESA STUDENTS

High demands to fulfill

Global skill set required

Mostly employed by

big companies

MEANING FOR ESA STUDENTS

Deal with other cultures

Explore diversity

Define important skills

Decide which skills are mandatory

Train skills

SOURCEShttp://sydney.edu.au/careers/about/glossary.shtml

http://culturematters.com/cultural-awareness-training-a-definition/

http://www.culturosity.com/articles/whatisculturalawareness.htm

http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/diversity2.jpg

http://digiteen11-1.flatclassroomproject.org/Cultural+Awareness

http://www.reputationinstitute.com/frames/images/2013_RepTrak_100_companies.png

http://studentbranding.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/globalskills.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4--CeCOOZ5Q/T4OxgSIffjI/AAAAAAAAAA0/9ZCr1m0rXQ0/s1600/cross-cultural-communication.jpg

http://www.churchplanting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/discrimination1.jpg

http://www.desktopwallpapers4.me/digital-art/world-map-on-hands-14890/

https://prezi.com/axdjddood7po/dipp1110-cultural-mind-map/

http://www.intercult.su.se/publications/Rendell%20et%20al%20Why%20copy%20others%20Science%202010.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxAUXoc-7XI

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2006/february-06/contagious-behavior.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron#In_humans

SOURCES

http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Richerson/CultDivers.pdf

http://www.careerkey.org/identify-your-skills/what-are-skills.html#.VOaeAcaRJNI

http://www.skillscan.com/sites/default/files/Three%20Types%20of%20Skills%20Classification.pdf

http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/pics/Skills-Map.JPG