With the ADVANCE #SportTaughtMe Challenge, we want to push you think about the skills you have acquired trhough sport, as a a volunteer or as practitionner.
This light challenge is meant for you to 1. open your eyes regarding the huge potential of sport as a non formal and informal learning place and 2. help you articulate the stories of these skills.
This practice might be a booster for your own employability.
There are countless reasons why you are in a unique position to bring in your talents to an organisation, but here you can learn about what may make a difference when introducing yourself.
CAN YOU GUESS THE TOP 10 SKILLS AND QUALITIES THAT WILL BE MOST VALUABLE IN 2022 ON THE JOB MARKET?
Play using « mouse-over »… and discover whether your intuition was correct
A method by which people settle differences. It is a process by which compromise or agreement is reached while avoiding argument and dispute.
Includes analyzing arguments, making inferences using inductive or deductive reasoning, judging or evaluating, and making decisions or solving problems.
Is product oriented and focuses on testing a sample of a manufacturing process to make sure that meets the required design specifications or quality standards
That was N°6 in 2015
Involves understanding what the underlying issues of the problem really are - not the symptoms.
Is a method which sums up the total amount of time spent actually using the skill
Sorry not listed
Measures an individual’s abilities to recognise and manage their emotions, and the emotions of other people, both individually and in groups.
Is the ability to generate a product or idea that is unique or very unusual, unexpected, first of its kind.
Is fully concentrating on what is being said rather than just passively ‘hearing’ the message of the speaker.
That was N°9 in 2015
Is the knowledge and ability to utilize computers and related technology efficiently
Sorry not listed
Involves overseeing and coordinating the work of others to complete various projects.
But not listed for 2022!
Is enabling people to get more and better work done in less time
That was N°10 in 2018
Is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as college or university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study.
Sorry not listed
Is the ability to motivate and inspire others to take action and successfully influence up, down and across the organization, impacting business results by driving behavior change.
Determines how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, it calls for an interplay between promptings and intelligence, between imagination and analysis.
Is the ability to examine information, understand what it means, and properly explain to others the implications of that information.
Based on the “Future of Jobs Report” by World Economic Forum
Interestingly the report highlights that on average, by 2022, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today! Technical skills will need to be supplemented with strong social and collaboration skills. this is where the power of sport and its untapped potential lies!
CAN YOU THINK OF SOME REAL LIFE EXAMPLE TO SHOWCASE SUCH QUALITIES?
With the ADVANCE wizard we provided you with a simple tool to identify the skills you acquired through sport. Through the above #SportTaughtMe Challenge WARM UP you have come to realize what will be the most saught after skills and qualities in a near future on the job market.
Through this exercice we are aiming at helping you connecting the dots AND telling the stories of your skills.
It is not always easy to come up with some exemplary examples on how you have used and developed your SOFT skills in your sport activties right? But if you are reading it now, it certainly is a good idea to try it now and it might prove useful in the future.
Try to think of it as an exercise that will help you list the skills you have acquired AND tell the story of how you have developed them.
We are currently working on develping a digital version of our ADVANCE « Tell the stories of your skills » workshop. Come back soon
