5.1.4 Skills

5.1.4.1 Your strengths

As a VET student, it is important that you are aware of your strengths and potential weaknesses before going abroad.

Try and do this test first:

Please print this file: "What am I like?"

A good understanding of your capabilities and limitations will help you prepare better for your stay in your destination country and avoid possible unpleasant situations.

Below you will an outline of various competencies (strengths):

5.1.4.2 : Soft skills (Personal, social, methodical) and hard skills:

Understand what the difference between SOFT and HARD skills are.

Find out and tick out those which characterize you best at this point of time:

Hard and soft skills poster

Webtraining on Atingi LMS platform

Suggestion of  external  registration on a training plaform

=> You might want to go for this Webtraining on Atingi LMS platform:
https://online.atingi.org/enrol/index.php?id=1319

5.1.4.3 Communication (interpersonal, phone, online conferences)

Beside all the above mentioned skills, you will need to train for PHONE conversation, as in real business life, phoning does differ from private chats.

This will help you gain confidence in yourself while looking for a training period or setting first goals, clarifying some points before you step in, etc

Talking on the phone

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It also makes sense to train how to behave in an ONLINE MEETING and introduce yourself or interact later on: See both Webtrainings on Atingi...

Webtrainings on Atingi

Ten golden rules for presenting online

More generally, have a look at a the topic "INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION". 

5.1.4.4 : How to behave in a company abroad