DIGITAL SKILLS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ACCENTURE

ACTIVITY
PACK

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DIGITAL SKILLS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ACCENTURE

CONTENTS

1. IDENTIFY THE SKILLS YOU ALREADY HAVE

2. IMPORTANT SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK

3. SELF-ASSESSMENT

4. DEVELOPING YOUR SKILLS

5. USEFUL TIPS

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IDENTIFY THE SKILLS YOU ALREADY HAVE

It can be hard to think of times when you have displayed a skill that employers are looking
for. But, if you think back to the experiences you’ve had throughout your life, you will find
times where you have demonstrated skills and have evidence to back them up.

Remember:
1. You do not need a qualification to show that you have a skill
2. Skills can be found in different life experiences- skills you have built outside of work
are often transferable to a work environment. Employers will often value these just as
much as skills developed in the workplace.
3. There will be times where you have displayed a skill but didn’t even realise it!

Look at the diagram below.

Think about the different questions asked in each section, as we will be using it for the next
activity.
For more support in helping you identifying your skills, look at our partner site Skills to
Succeed Academy and complete the ‘Identifying your Skills' module.

Click this link to go directly to the module via the login or registration screen. You will
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IMPORTANT SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE OF WORK

Based on the technological changes and industry demands, we believe that The 6 Skill
Families are the skills that are most likely to grow in the future. These are skills that every
employer is looking for in the digital age that will be required to thrive alongside disruptive
and emerging technologies such as AI and are shown in the first column of your table below.

Think about the skills you might have already developed in each skill family from different
areas of your life. This could include work, hobbies, education or home life as mentioned in
the previous section. Use this to fill in the second column of your table, putting your example
in the box which best represents which skills you are using.

Look at Faridah’s example below:

Remember, you can include more than one example per section, but try to think of the most
recent examples for each section, saying that you tutored Maths at a tuition centre is much
better than saying that you took part in a bake sale in primary school!

Try to put the skill you are trying to show at the top of your answer, then explain how you
showed that skill underneath.

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 What Skills do I What skills do I need
The 6 Skill Families have? to work on?

CULTIVATE A GROWTH
MINDSET
Why is it important in the workplace?

Role descriptions and tasks change often,

especially as digital technologies keep
changing the way we work. In the digital
economy, we don’t expect our careers to
be not restricted to one employer, job or
team, so it is important to stay curious,
open, relevant and adapt to change.

Some skills in this family are:

Staying Positive- Openness &
Resilience & Curiosity 
Perseverance Being open to things
Being able to recover changing, and keen to
from difficult situations learn new things

Aiming High- Aiming high- Agility &

Feedback  Adaptability 
Accepting feedback is Being able to quickly
a great opportunity for adapt to changing
self-reflection and situations
improvement

LEARN TO EARN
Why is it important in the workplace?

Foundational skills to get work and be ready

for the workforce will become even more
important as work becomes increasingly
digital. These include basic employability skills
as well the minimum competencies required to
locate, evaluate, create, transact and share
content digitally.

Some skills in this family are:

Numeracy Digital Literacy

Comprehension of Ability able to find,
numbers, evaluate, create and
calculations and share content on
numerical symbols. various digital
platforms.

Simple Reasoning
Reading, written and oral comprehension,
information ordering, memorization, selective
attention, time sharing, speech recognition.

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Business Conduct & Time Management,
Job Searching Organisation &
Ability to find, Prioritisation 
successfully apply and Ability to identify when
interview for a job. Plus a task is urgent,
understand workforce knowing how to
balance work and
behaviours and
estimate on task
expectations.
completion.

BUILD TECH KNOW-HOW

Why is it important in the workplace?

In almost every job, you will get to use

digital devices or technologies in one way
or the other. A basic understanding of
data is important because more and more
companies want to use it to improve their
business, so they need their employees
to be able to analyse data, explore, share
and draw conclusions from it. It is also
useful to understand how technology can
be built, manipulated or applied.
However, you do not need to be an
expert in data to be able to use it in your
job.

Some skills in this family are:

Awareness & Awareness of Data

Sources &
Ability to use Pro
Interpretation 
Tools
Being able to handle Being able to identify
digital devices and to data and recognise it
as such, and to
learn how to use new
programmes or interpret data or data
software with some visualisations, e.g.
instruction or training. graphs or charts.

Online Content Analysis

Creation & Ability to identify
Curation  when a task is
Creating content or urgent, knowing how
identifying pieces of to balance work and
content suitable for estimate on task
a specific channel or
completion.
audience.

Technical & Operational

Tech design, equipment selection, installation,
operation & control, maintenance,
troubleshooting, repairs, quality control
analysis.

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APPLY WE’Q
Why is it important in the workplace?

As work is becoming more collaborative and

task based, your employer wants to know
that you’ll be able to work and interact with
others, convey and process information and
take on responsibility. This is not only in high
demand amongst employers but also crucial
when starting a business. This is especially
important as the workplace has become very
global and there are more opportunities to
collaborate because of digital technologies.

Some skills in this family are:

Teamwork and Communication

Collaboration  (listening and
Being able to work presenting)
effectively with others, Getting your message
split up work and across to others in
support others with writing and in
achieving a common conversation, speech
goal clarity, learning
strategy, instructing

Socio-emotional Leadership
Active listening, Motivating others,
service orientation, giving guidance and
negotiation, social making decisions, as
perceptiveness, well as leading by
persuasion. example.

Supervision Self-awareness &

Coordination, Self-regulation 
monitoring, judgment Knowing your
and decision making, behaviours and
time management, characteristics and
problem sensitivity, being able to adapt
management of them to a team
personnel, material environment.
and financial
resources.

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 CREATE AND SOLVE
Why is it important in the workplace?

No matter what job you’ll do, there will

always come a time when there’s a problem
and somebody needs to fix it. As machines
can take over repetitive and simple tasks, the
problems that people solve become more
complex. This requires thinking
unconventionally and gathering information
from diverse sources – that’s why we need to
think creatively and critically to solve
problems.

Some skills in this family are:

Creativity Problem-solving
Coming up with new Being able to identify
approaches to solve a what causes a
problem or improve a problem, thinking
situation, fluency and through and evaluating
originality of ideas possible approaches,
and then trying out the
most promising ones

Critical thinking  An Entrepreneurial

Observing & analysing mindset
phenomena, reactions Being able to identify
& feedback, & drawing new opportunities for
conclusions based on value creation,
that; questioning embracing innovation
statements presented and change, and being
as facts that aren’t able to deal with
backed by evidence. calculated risks.

SPECIALISE FOR WORK

Why is it important in the workplace?

The need for specialised skills is necessary for

any kind of work or entrepreneurial venture.
This could be anything from knowing how to
handle an industrial crane to performing heart
surgery. These are skills you will have to pick
up in specialised courses, training or on the
job and will need to continually change based
on context, industry, market demand and type
of work. These skills can help you advance,
reskill and progress to the next job or
business.

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SELF-ASSESSMENT

The table you just completed now contains many of your experiences and how they relate to
the relevant skills for the future.
Look back over your table. Do you have a lot of examples for one section? Is there a section
which you have struggled to find any examples where you have demonstrated skills in that
family? Maybe these skills need improving or developing?
Now, if there is a new job that you might want to go into, a new responsibly that you would
like to gain at work, or a skill that you have noticed that you haven’t developed as much.
Think of the requirements to accomplish this goal, you might want to use Google to find out
which skills might be required to pursue your goal, such as a particular skill you might need
for a job.
Use this to fill in the “What skills do I need to work on?” column. Also, start thinking of ways
you could develop this skill.

Look at Faridah’s Example below:

Now your table should be fully complete!
This is a really great way of identifying your skills and finding out which ones need
developing further. This could be useful for future job applications or for a general self-
assessment of your skills.
Think about sharing it with a career councillor or teacher.

DEVELOPING YOUR SKILLS

Now, think about the skills you have just mentioned that you want to develop. Select
one.

What actions will you take to develop this skill?

Look at Faridah’s answer below she has used the SMART (Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant, Timebound) technique to help her develop this skill, below her
example we have given more details on what SMART goals means:

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SMART meaning:

Specific: You should answer the 5 W’s - what (skill are you building), why (the goal!), who
(can help you), where (can you build this skill?) and which (constraints requirements do i
have?)

Measurable: How will you determine you have build this skill? or what does good look like??

Achievable: Is it realistic? Are there constraints or barriers? The target must be realistic and
must not be set too high or low.

Relevant: Does it align with your overall goal or other goals?

Time-bound: Is there a target date for progression or completion? You will need to think
about what you can do now and in 1/2/6/9/12 months’ time, etc.

Remember they must be tangible actions, so you can measure your progress along
the way.

Write your answer here…

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CHECK YOUR PROGRESS

Lastly, having a great plan doesn’t mean anything unless you check in on your
progress regularly.
This could be as simple as reviewing this pack every month, seeing where you are in
terms of your progress and being honest with yourself in how much you have achieved.

Just remember to stay focused on your goal in whatever way works for you.

Think about reviewing and discussing this pack with an adviser, career counsellor, friend,
family member or anyone else who could help you achieve your goals give you some
honest feedback.

It is now down to you, be determined, act and importantly remember to have fun.
This is Your Career, make the most of it and make it work for you.

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