Task 5: The final product - A discursive essay All eight employability skills: communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative and enterprise, planning and organization, self-management, learning and technology will be considered important by employers looking to hire a graduate. However an employer looking to hire a teacher will consider communication, organisation, enterprise and learning as the main skill to be most proficient at. «Communication is fundamental at all employment levels. Employers interviewed said they believe that communication skills contribute to a harmonious working environment and better relationships with clients" (McLeish, 2002) since client teachers are the students' parents. Effective teaching would not be achievable without communication, as teachers are constantly imparting new knowledge, or transmitting information' the definition of the word communication in the Concise Oxford Dictionaries is 'the act of imparting, especially news', or 'the science and practice of transmitting information' (Prozesky , 2000).Feedback is an important component of communication and essential to teaching, being able to provide useful feedback can have a considerable effect on student learning and development and help reduce any misunderstandings about what is being done. wait. Feedback has been shown to be one of the most significant activities a teacher can engage in to improve student achievement (Hattie, 1992). (Tjeerdsma B, 1997) provides an apt example of why having good communication skills and feedback skills are so important for teaching and how misuse can affect student learning. A PE teacher is coaching a particular badminton serve, a couple of students are having trouble finishing... halfway through the task... distracting and potentially confusing for students, grades would be difficult to determine and grades could not be considered accurate. Communication is the cornerstone of a functioning classroom and strong relationships. Most employability related skills require communication to be used well because some level of human interaction is involved, for example teamwork without communication would be completely ineffective. To progress or make progress in anything requires learning skills. Keeping up with the changing world of technology is not possible without strong learning skills, so although technology is considered an important skill by an employer, it can only be developed or improved by using skill learning. University of California - Los Angeles (2006, July 26). Multitasking negatively affects the brain's learning, UCLA Psycholo