Standing out from the crowd
Juggling skills
Employers will be impressed if you've successfully juggled three things successfully - your study, work experience and extra-curricular activities. It's worth including a summary of your academic results in your job application. You'll impress if you can show consistent or improving academic results with a credit average or better. Also include any paid or unpaid work you've done, as well as your extra-curricular activities. Employers are impressed by candidates who lead a balanced life and have developed some generic skills.
Technical vs generic skills
Employers want graduates who can demonstrate both:
They're also interested in graduates who have helpful personal attributes. Employers will be particularly impressed if you can identify your best set of skills, what kinds of personal attributes you have, and if you can demonstrate how you have used them before. You also need to know which skills are the most important to you, to the job of interest and to your career.
You don't have to be a superhero
You're not expected to be all things to all employers. However you are expected to understand which of your qualifications, experience, skills or attributes are your most important assets and to express them in your job application and interview.
