Maximising Your Time as a Degree Apprentice, Chapter 4: Creating your skills roadmap

Part of Maximising your time as a Degree Apprentice · Chapter 4 of 21 · 10 min

About this chapter

Create your own skills roadmap by looking at roles you might want in three or four years and working out what skills you'd need. It shows you where to focus, and it impresses mentors when you bring it.

Key points

• Look at what your degree teaches and find chances to use that theory in your work.
• Skills include presenting, researching, stakeholder management and delivering outcomes a manager can use straight away.
• Find a couple of real job specs, including a stretch role, and note the explicit and implied requirements.
• Compare where you are now with where you need to be, and take the gaps to your mentors.
• The company and university won't run your career for you; you have to take charge.

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