Key competencies and skills
required from students
Students interest and values
Employment issues
External approach
Key Questions
Key 21st centurycompetencies?
Employers needs intimes of youth
unemployment?
Youth Values?
Key 21st centurycompetencies
„Learning in 21st century”
Management skills
„Personal” skills
Human and social skills
MANAGEMENT SKILLS
• Proficient in ICT: information management for gathering, integrating and creating new knowledge;
• Financial economic and business literacy
• Leadership skills: setting business direction; aligning and motivating others; delivering results
• Juggling multiple responsibilities, making decisions on their own, project-based work
„PERSONAL” SKILLS:
• Life-long flexible learning ability: practical learning and learning outside of usual environment, by internships and projects with people from other age groups;
• Adapting to changing needs
• Real world-problem solving;
• Standards for excellence
• Competencies: self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, honesty
• Technology skills
HUMAN AND SOCIAL SKILLS
• Global Awareness - using all competencies in order to adress global issues as a part of global environment (ability to cooperate with this diverse environment in a proper way)
• Ability to analize and transform information in order to interact effectively with others
• Living in digital society
• Team work
Key Questions
Key 21st centurycompetencies?
Employers needs intimes of youth
unemployment?
Youth Values?
Key Questions
Employers needs in times of youth
unemployment?
Employers needs in timesof youth unemployment?
Key Questions
What are the most important competences
for employers?
What is current image of graduate ?
SGH & EY Report
Most valuable competencies
Effectivecommunication
Language skillsOpen-minded and willing to develop
Engagement
Ability to work in team
Prioritetizing
• Creation and explaination
Ethic in work Responsibility
Effective time-management & organization of
work
Flexibility
for Employers in 2012
Current state
Open-minded and willing to develop
Ability to work in multicultural team
Usage of IT tools
Language skills
Logical thinking
Striving for results
Creativity
Diploma, Certificates,
Ethic in work
Responsibility
among students
Only 4 from 10 of competencesmentioned fullfill the needs ofemployers. There is a big gapbetween what students have andwhat is being needed at currentmarket.
Comparison
Effectivecommunication
Language skillsOpen-minded and willing to develop
Engagement
Ability to work in team
Prioritetizing
•Creation and explaination
Ethic in work Responsibility
Effective time-management & organization of
work
Flexibility
Can AIESEC fill this gap ?
Ideal candidate
Effective communication
Open minded & willing to develop
Proactivity & Engagement in work
Flexibility
Ability to cooperate in team
Language skills
(especially English)
How can we connect employersneeds and educate studentsabout current market ?
Key Questions
What are the most important competences
for employers?
Employer needs in times of youth
unemployment?
Młodzi na rynku pracy 2012
Youth values?
Key 21st century competencies?
• ability to adjust to changing environment,• awareness of working market,
• hard-working attitude,• activity (in job seeking),• time management,
• thinking out-of-the-box,• willingness to work abroad
Employers needs in times of youth unemployment?
• hard-working• availability• teamwork• creativity
• resistance to stress• work under time pressure
Youth values?
• interpersonal relations• stability and safety
• personal development• self-awareness and self-confidence
• flexibility
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