employability skills and cultural awareness
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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
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
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
Togo
Ger
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Latv
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Russia
Englan
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4
5
6
commitment and ded-ication
flexibility
knowledge of human race
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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