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Skills and Qualifications
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What matters more: qualifications or experience?
What are some ways to:
• improve inexperienced employees? (for companies)
• overcome inexperience? (for yourself)
B. Skilled and unskilled
MEANING
1. Skilled (adj): having the abilities needed to do an activity or job well
2. Multi-skilled (adj) : able to do a lot of different things
3. Semi-skilled (adj) : having or needing only a small amount of training
4. Low-skilled (adj) : not having or needing a high level of skill or education
5. Unskilled (adj) : Unskilled people have no particular work skills, and unskilled work does not need any particular skills
USES
1. Highly-skilled/semi-skilled… + career: skilled employees/staffs/workers/ politicians/negotiators
2. Unskilled … + work: unskilled jobs/positions/work
3. Be skilled at/in doing something: The highly-successful supermarket giant is skilled at obtaining products cheaply.
B. Skilled and unskilled
DISCUSS
Are these jobs generally considered to be
highly skilled, skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled? -
Teacher, software engineer, car worker on a
production line, cleaner, office cleaner, airline
pilot, bus driver, office manager.
SKILLS AND
QUALIFICATIONS
MATCHING
NOTE
1. methodical (adj) : methodical people do things in a very ordered, careful way
2. systematic (adj) : using an organized method that is often detailed
3. computer-literate (adj) : able to use computers well
4. numerate (adj) : good with numbers
5. motivated (adj) : very enthusiastic or determined because you really want to do something
6. talented (adj) : having a natural ability or skill
7. self-starter (adj) : a person who is able to work effectively without regularly needing to be told what to do
8. proactive (adj) : taking action to make changes yourself rather than reacting to things that happen
9. self-motivated (adj) : able and willing to work without being told what to do
10. team player (adj) : someone who is good at working closely with other people
DISCUSS
COMPUTER-
NUMERATE SYSTEMATIC TEAM PLAYER
LITERATE