Being asked to rank each of the skills made them think more seriously about which skills and attributes were considered the most important and why. Victoria University is using the results of the survey to design a Professional Skills Development Programme which will give students formal recognition of additional skills they have acquired in addition to their academic programme. The Employment Skills Survey was conducted by Victoria University's Career Development and Employment Service in March 2000. The survey sampled 200 employers who were actively recruiting or who had recently recruited university graduates. To ensure this was representative, the medians were also examined and gave the same top ten order.
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