How To Build Up The Skills Employers Think Students Lack

How To Build Up The Skills Employers Think Students Lack Image via blog.shepell.com Relax before you speak and make sure you clarify whatever is being said. Miscommunication often leads to problems in the workplace. Lastly, empathize and always be positive. Talk to all your coworkers in a constructive tone and you will receive the same back. Remember, everyone has different points of view so always keep that in the back of your mind when conversing. Understand where the other person is coming from. If you follow these small tips, your interpersonal skills will greatly improve and have a positive impact in your work environment. In addition, problem-solving was another skill employers mentioned that they found college graduates lacking. This is not just doing math problems; this refers to analytical thinking. The first step in improving your problem-solving skills is to fully understand the problem. According to wikihow.com: “If you don’t properly understand the problem, your solutions may be ineffective or fail entirely. To define the problem you will have to ask questions and look at different angles. For example, is there one problem or actually several? Can you restate the problem in your own words?” This means you will probably also have to gather more information. In order to get a clear picture of everything, you need to know everything. Once that is done is when you can begin the second step making a plan. When you start formulating a plan, look at your gathered information as a whole and order its importance. Following that, you can start drafting multiple solutions. It is important to have choices; it gives you more options to solve the problem. That way you are not stuck trying to make one solution work. According to wikihow.com: “Use analogies and similarities. Try to find a resemblance with a previously solved or common problem. If you can find commonalities between your situation and one youve dealt with before, you may be able to adapt some of the solutions for use now.” Once you have planned out a couple solutions, evaluate them and pick one. Now you have to implement it. When you put your plan into practice, do a trial-run first (if you can). See how it works for a few days or weeks, depending on what the original problem was. Review the results and if nothing has changed, you go back to the drawing board, or try out one of your other options. Make adjustments as you go along; new problems always arise. There are other ways to work on your problem-solving skills as well. According to wikihow.com: “Play video games. Video games have been portrayed as intellectually lazy for a long time. However, new research shows that playing video games can improve parts of thinking like spatial perception, reasoning and memory.” Choose the game wisely, as obviously not all video games are suitable for training your problem-solving skills. Try a puzzle game or a role-playing game, something that makes you think. In addition, try taking up a hobby that forces you to do some strategic thinking. This includes chess, learning a foreign language, Sudoku, or web design. Tackling interpersonal problem-solving skills, the most answered in the said survey, will improve your meaning in the work place. Therefore, your employers will be happy and the transition from college to the working world will be smoother.