Essential Employability Skills

Fleming College Co-Curricular Record

Fleming College has developed CCR opportunities to reflect the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, essential employability skills that college graduates should be able to reliably demonstrate after graduation. These employability skills are transferable across all career sectors. Students and graduates can use the language to help strengthen their cover letters and resumes as well as capably articulate their own skill-sets in an interview setting.

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Personal Competencies in the Fleming CCR

Appreciating Diversity and Social Responsibility

Civic Responsibility: Reflects on how thoughts, languages, and actions impact the development of supportive, inclusive communities

Global Perspective: Creates positive and impactful interactions in support of enhancing inclusion in own community and/or globally

Social Responsibility: Recognizes and responds to the use of stereotypes and assumptions

Collaboration and Relationship Management

Interdependence: Interact with others in groups or teams in ways that contribute to effective working relationships and the achievement of shared goals

Respecting Team Dynamics: Respects individuals and their multiple perspectives in the successful completion of team-based projects and activities

Demonstrating Professionalism:  Seeks feedback from others and accepts constructive feedback in return

 

Leadership Development

Role Modelling: Explores personal impact as a role model to foster leadership in individuals/communities

Leadership Growth and Development: Reflects on own leadership style and abilities

Effective Leadership:  Serves in a leadership capacity by taking initiative in a variety of development opportunities

Healthy Behaviour

Holistic Wellness Promotion: Articulates relationship between mental and physical health and holistic wellness

Maintaining Health and Wellness: Chooses behaviour and environments that promote health and reduce risk

Encouraging Healthy Behaviour: Exhibits and promotes healthy behaviour that advance a healthy community

 

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Practical Skill Development:  Employs practical knowledge through applied learning strategies to obtain positive outcomes and develop transferable skills

Creativity:  Exhibits creative and innovative thinking to analyze and/or develop original ideas or solutions

Critical Thinking:  Uses a variety of thinking skills to anticipate and solve problems 

Initiative and Decision Making

Acknowledges Responsibility:  Take responsibility for ones actions, decisions and consequences

Takes Initiative:  Understands and takes initiative in developing and/or sustaining positive changes on and/or off campus

Constructing Knowledge:  Uses information from a variety of sources including personal experience and observation to form a decision or opinion

 

Time Management and Prioritizing

Organization Strategies:  Ability to organize own work and can multi-task priorities

Time Management:  Manage the use of time and other resources to complete tasks or projects

Goal Oriented:  Uses personal and educational goals to set priorities and guide decisions

Communication and Information Delivery

Effective Reasoning:  Effectively combines multiple information sources to provide accurate details to others

Instruction and Demonstration:  Reinforces personal knowledge by instructing and/or demonstrating to others

Effective Communication:  Uses engaging verbal and non-verbal communication techniques to ensure understanding by the audience

 

Sustainable Practices

Advocates for Sustainable Principles:  Applies effective leadership skills to engage stakeholders to effect social, cultural, economic and environmental change

Sustainable Decision Making:  Applies sustainable principles to decision making at a variety of levels (personal/local/regional/global)

Sustainable Community Development:  Gains understanding of the role of communities and organizations in encouraging accountability and influencing human behaviour in eco-system sustainability

Self-Awareness and Reflection

Self-Understanding:  Acknowledges personal strengths and weaknesses and learns from past experiences

Collaboration: Considers potential differences in self and others before decisions are made

Identity Development: Understands own identity and culture, reflecting on personal morals, values, and ethics

 

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