A university degree or certificate does not exactly mean you are fit for employment, but skills do. You need skills to thrive at a workplace.
Mostly, we learn theoretical and practical lessons in school, but certain skills of personal attributes or qualities are not exactly in universities curricula. You learn such skills from your day to day interactions with people and responses to situations.
For instance, you learn good communication skills mostly in your interactions with people and not as a course in school. Well, except you are studying a course related to man’s social environment.
Below are skills you should develop as an undergraduate before joining the workforce:
1. Time Management
Having to handle many assignments as an undergraduate is common ordeal in Nigerian Universities. As an undergraduate, if you do this regularly without failing to submit your work or rushing to meet deadlines, you’re a good time manager. It shows you know how to manage your workload and persons like you are what many employers want on their payroll.
2. Good budget Management
One ability some students learn unconsciously is money management. If in school you could use your pocket money to buy necessary study/school materials, provisions and still save, it means you have got good budget management skills. This is a merit you shouldn’t fail to mention in your CV.
3. Good communication skills
Every day, you communicate on campus; you listen to lecturers and asks questions, write tests, converse with friends and express your opinions. All these sharpens your communication skills, and if it seems people always seek for your opinion on matters or enjoy involving you in discussions, it means you have got good communication skills.
4. Accepting constructive criticisms
In school, you cannot avoid criticism; from corrections on your answers sheets to constructive criticism from your fellow students. Your ability to accept corrections and criticisms and using them to better yourself makes you a flexible and progressive individual. Employers seek for employees who are flexible and progressive.
5. Thinking out of the box
In university you are expected to think for yourself, and create solutions to problems. When lecturers asks applied questions they expect you to think out of the box, make research and tackle problems from new angles. If you excel in such, it means you just might end up becoming invaluable to an organization or corporation.
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