Introduction
In this report I will be explaining what employability is and why they are important. I will also define what is personal and communicational skills required when applying for a job role as an accountant.
Employability Skills
Each job requires candidates doing it to possess a variety of specialist skills require for a specific job. Though there are range of skills that are useful to a wider variety of careers and are hence forth transferable between jobs. This is known as employability skills. These are essential for employees to be able to work effectively in a modern organisation or workplace. For instance to be an accountant for Cameron Balloons, the applicant needs to have suitable qualifications as well as having relevant experience in a similar role. This is important when applying for a job as an accountant, since it tells the organisation that you possess the experience and qualifications that are required for the job.
Personal Skills
Personal Skills are certain skills that will be beneficial regardless of the job. These transferrable skills make a candidate for the accounting job attractive when they are applying for the job role for Cameron balloons. For an accountant on of the personal skills that will be beneficial will be patience. As an accountant having patience is very important. An accountant who remains patience in a very difficult time and situations and gets the job done is highly valued by the organisation. Therefore showing this skills while applying will be more effective and are willingly to get the job.
Communication
As an accountant possessing communicational skills in both written and verbal is crucial. This is because the accountant will need to be able to manipulate the information and report its findings to the higher management. Therefore the accountant needs verbal communication to explain his findings and how will influence the business and what they can do to improve. Also the accountant has to be able to write reports using specialist language. Hence forth when applying for an accountant job it is crucial to have communicational skills. Since the organisation will value this skill a lot.
Skills that I have
For me to apply for an accountant job, I will need to possess appropriate skills listed above. I believe that I have relevant skills needed to be an accountant. I have personal skills such as team work. This skill is very important for an accountant since as working as a group you can analysis the weakness and the strength of each person as well as their work, therefore further improvements can be made. It is also very efficient since teams develop ideas that allow them to complete tasks efficiently and quickly. The employability skills that I have is that I have qualifications in Btec national diploma. This qualification is related to how businesses operate. This is ideal to be an accountant as you will need to know what businesses is and what they do. Another personal skills that I have is that I am quite confident. This is necessary since as a accountant you must be confident on the work you are doing.