The Cardiff Global Award 2015 - 2016 Essential Guide

Skills that make the ‘Global Graduate’
The Award will help you to develop and to articulate the following employability skills:
• Self-Management
A readiness to accept responsibility, to be flexible and a self-starter who demonstrates
appropriate assertiveness, time management and organisational skills. Able to improve your
own performance based on feedback/reflective learning. Adapting to different learning and
living environments and being able to set up new support systems independently.
• Team Working
Working towards a common goal, understanding your role within a multi-cultural/multi-lingual
team. Being adaptable, respecting others, co-operating, negotiating/persuading, and
contributing to discussions. An awareness of interdependence with others is also important.
• Business and Commercial Awareness
Possessing a basic understanding of the key drivers for business success. Understands global
and national economic concerns and keeps updated of current affairs affecting businesses and
organisations. Includes the importance of innovation and taking calculated risks as well as the
need to provide customer satisfaction and build customer loyalty. Understanding how you add
value to an organisation.
• Problem Solving
The ability to demonstrate resilience and lateral thinking when approaching problems.
Analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions.
Being able to embrace multiple perspectives and being confident enough to challenge thinking
when appropriate. Identifying suitable support systems where none previously exist.
• Communication and Networking
Application of literacy and the ability to produce clear, structured written work as well
as demonstrable oral literacy (including listening and questioning). Can use language
appropriate for the situation and can communicate confidently with people of all
backgrounds, cultures and/or levels of seniority.
• Literacy (in any language appropriate to the situation)
Can produce written documents to a high standard (punctuation, grammar and spelling)
Consistently demonstrates attention to detail (will check written work for errors before
submission)
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