Marketable Skills

What are Marketable Skills?

Often referred to as employability skills or transferable skills, marketable skills include interpersonal, cognitive, and applied skill areas that are

primary or complementary to a major
intended to help students market themselves to employers

Marketable Skills are essential for Dallas College students because

They are the skills that enable students to find a job.
They fulfill the third goal of 60x30Texas: “By 2030, all graduates from Texas public institutions of higher education will have completed programs with identified marketable skills.”
They are skills that students often have trouble extrapolating from their coursework.

Dallas College Marketable Skills are interwoven in the Core Objectives

Students learn and practice marketable skills as they accomplish the Core Objectives. Therefore, students should understand that as they progress through the Core, their courses are offering them opportunities to refine the following skills:

Critical Thinking	Communication	Teamwork	Personal Responsibility	Social Responsibility	Empirical Quantitative
Analyze Issues	Clearly and effectively articulate complex issues/ideas in written form	Accept responsibility for role of a team/Fulfill team expectations	Accept responsibility	Demonstrate awareness of community issues	Communicate results using tables, charts, graphs
Anticipate problems, solutions, and consequences	Clearly and effectively articulate ideas orally	Foster collaboration with colleagues; manage group conflicts	Demonstrate ethical behavior	Demonstrate awareness of global issues	Contextualize numeric information/data
Apply knowledge to make decisions	Facilitate discussion	Make collaborative decisions	Exhibit Time Management	Demonstrate empathy	Demonstrate logical thinking
Detect patterns/themes/ underlying principles	Summarize information	Provide and/or receive useful feedback	Learn and grow from mistakes	Develop civic responsibility	Design an experiment or model
Gather proper resources and information to conduct research	Use active listening and interviewing skills	Welcome diverse viewpoints	Show attention to detail	Learn from diverse cultures, races, genders, religions, etc.	Draw inferences from data, use data to formulate conclusions
Interpret data and synthesize information	use proper technical writing skills		Show respect for others	Understand cultural norms	Use appropriate calculations to solve problems