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Quotes About Employability

It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for all to grow and prosper.
~ Chanda Kochhar
To set yourself apart from any stereotyped group, learn to project what all employers desire: the "ideal worker persona." These are quick learners, adaptable, flexible, and willing to try to succeed at new tasks. They take their own professional development to the highest level possible and excel at core strengths.
~ Robin Ryan
The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
~ Clint Smith
I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.
~ Phyllida Lloyd
For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.
~ Peter Jones
Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.
~ Janet Yellen
Communication Skills As most employers will tell you, performance is based upon your ability both to assess and to respond. You need to be able to assess the person you are speaking to in order to understand what his or her needs are, how the person makes decisions, and what he or she finds valuable. Then, you should be able to respond in an appropriate manner, pointing out your assets and how you could benefit the company were you to be hired.
~ Jonathan Berent
Dropouts are only one outcome of bad quality. Poor learning outcomes, low employability of graduates, low productivity, and consequent low wages constitute another set of outcomes.
~ Bibek Debroy
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.
~ Derek Bok
You have to be innovative and creative to make yourself employable.
~ Amala Akkineni
Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
~ Ken Robinson
It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.
~ Jenny Holzer
The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.
~ Nina Easton
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
~ Janet Yellen