Essential Workplace Skills

Welcome: Essential Workplace Skills
Description: This WebQuest explores workplace skills, specifically, applied skills that employers are looking for in today’s employees. For a profession of interest to you, what are essential applied skills and how can students acquire them before leaving school? There is so much information on the Internet on this topic, and this WebQuest will guide you in investigating and identifying the essential workplace skills and how you can acquire them.
Grade Level: 9-12
Curriculum: Life Skills / Careers
Keywords: Workplace, soft skills, applied skills, training, technical skills, professionalism, transferable skills
Author(s): Jennifer Belt, Jaime Chanter, Davison Mupinga