Essential Employability Skills

Employment is important, and to excel in the workforce, you'll need both technical skills and employability skills. We've partnered with Kentucky’s Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) to focus on the following 10 Essential Skills, which are instrumental to our students’ success:

 1. Communicate effectively

2. Think critically in order to solve problems and create new ideas and solutions

3. Apply quantitative reasoning skills to analyze and solve numerical problems

4. Interact effectively with people from diverse backgrounds

5. Adapt to changing circumstances while leading and supporting others

6. Perform professionally within their chosen field of study or occupation

7. Engage in civic life to improve society

8. Collaborate and work in teams

9. Apply academic knowledge, skills, and abilities to their chosen career

10. Use information for decision-making