Personal skills & competences
This field must include the skills that you have developed as a result of the mobility experience and that have contributed to your personal development. We refer to the development of autonomy, the ability to solve unforeseen situations in a foreign environment, the ability to take decisions, to teamwork....
Versatility and adaptability
- Adapting successfully to changing situations and environments
- Having to develop different tasks in a variety of situations
- Opening to the ideas & views of others
Responsability
- Being forced to organize my household abroad
- Budgeting or planning for spending carefully
Ability to control
- Controlling an unexpected situation
- Keeping calm in the face of difficulties
- Handling criticism and growing from it/built upon it.
- Learning how to take control of a situation and deal with it in a level headed manner
Decision making, personal effectiveness and initiative
- Having taken the initiative of working/studying abroad
- Deciding which modules/studies/courses to take next year
- Buying an expensive item (car or computer)
- Suggesting changes to a course/tasks/job
- Starting own business: selling on Ebay
- Creating a website
- Making choices based on own judgement.
Self-confidence, self-awareness
- Being aware of my achievements, abilities, values & weaknesses & what I want out of life.
- Travelling alone abroad
Creativity
- Generating & applying new ideas & solutions
- Using creativity/initiative in the generation of alternative solutions to a problem.
- Using the imagination more freely, and making connections between ideas that seem unrelated
Problem solving and conflict resolution
- Negotiating the rent with my landlord
- Negotiating the late handing in of essays
- Thinking quickly to respond to sudden changes in circumstances
- Negotiating my rights and responsibilities ( job, living situation)
Good capacity in organising the tasks, organisational awareness
- Working part-time while studying
- Combining study with volunteering / Job/ hobbies
- Balancing academic work with extra-curricular activities and/or employment.
- Finding out about different careers through work shadowing
- Organising my revision schedule
Curiosity
- Enquiring information about the new country ,custom, habits, landmarks
- Renewing interest in lifelong learning
- Researching for coursework/ investigation in the library
- Reading financial pages/ news of a newspaper
Resilence (the ability to bounce back from setbacks), commitment and persistence
- Living with parents again and consequent loss of freedom with positiveness
- Trying to get any job in spite of the closed doors
- Persisting in the face of unexpected difficulties
- Overcoming obstacles to achieve an ambition