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Skills Lab – Discover Your Skills
Skills Lab – Discover Your Skills
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Skills Lab – Discover Your Skills is the second step of your journey towards employability. Now that you have reflected on where you are and where you want to go, it is time to discover the skills you already have and understand why they matter for your future.
In this facilitator-led workshop, you will explore the difference between technical skills and soft skills and understand how they work together in the workplace. You will also discover that soft skills are not only developed through work: you may already have gained important skills through school, VET, volunteering, sport, hobbies, youth activities, teamwork and other life experiences.
By the end of the activity, you will be able to:
- Understand what soft skills are and why skills such as communication, teamwork, adaptability, problem-solving, creativity or time management can be important in the workplace.
- Distinguish between technical and soft skills and understand how they complement each other when presenting what you can offer to an employer.
- Recognise that skills can be developed in different contexts, including school and VET, but also through volunteering, sport, hobbies, youth activities, community involvement and everyday life experiences.
- Reflect on your own experiences and identify situations in which you have developed or demonstrated soft skills.
- Identify and name at least five soft skills that you have developed, connecting each one to a concrete experience or situation from your own life.
- Explain how you developed or demonstrated each skill, moving beyond simply saying “I am good at teamwork” or “I am a good communicator”.
- Understand the value of using real examples to demonstrate your skills, preparing you to communicate them more clearly in your CV and to future employers.
This is the second step of your employability journey: you already know where you want to go; now it is time to recognise what you can already bring with you.
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My Skills Get this badge
By earning this badge, you show that you can recognise and explain soft skills that you have developed through your own experiences. You understand that skills can be gained not only through school or work, but also through volunteering, sport, hobbies, youth activities and other experiences in your life.
You have identified at least five soft skills that you recognise in yourself and connected each one to a real experience that shows where and how you developed or demonstrated it. This means that you are starting to turn your experiences into skills that you can communicate to others, including future employers.
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Task — My Skills: What Have I Learned from My Experiences?
To earn this badge, identify five soft skills that you recognise in yourself and connect each skill to a real experience from your life.
For each soft skill, reflect on:
- What is the skill? - Name the soft skill you have identified.
- Where did I develop or demonstrate it? - Think about a real experience — for example, at school, in VET, volunteering, sport, a hobby, a youth activity, a project, at home or in another situation.
- What did I actually do? - Briefly describe what happened and what you did.
- How does this experience show the skill? - Explain how your actions helped you develop or demonstrate this skill.
Example:
Skill: Teamwork
Experience: Playing on a basketball team
What I did: I trained regularly with the same team, communicated with other players and worked with them towards common goals.
How this shows the skill: I learned how to cooperate with different people, contribute to a team and support others even when we disagreed.
Evidence: Upload your completed “My Skills Map”, including at least five soft skills and a real experience demonstrating each one.
Your evidence will be reviewed by a mentor or educator.
The mentor is not assessing whether you have the “right” soft skills. Everyone has different experiences and strengths. The purpose of the assessment is to check whether you can identify a soft skill and connect it clearly to a real experience that demonstrates it.
To receive the badge, your evidence should show that:
- You have identified at least five soft skills.
- You can correctly name and understand each skill.
- You have connected each skill to a real experience or situation.
- You have explained what you actually did in that situation.
- Your example provides reasonable evidence that you developed or demonstrated the identified skill.
- Your reflection is personal and based on your own experiences.
Once your mentor confirms that your five skills are supported by clear examples in the “My Skills Map”, your evidence can be approved and you can earn the badge.
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