Honesty is rated the most important of nonacademic skills by supervisors and employees in the ACT National Curriculum Survey 2016.
Other important nonacademic skills rated highly include sustaining effort, cooperating and maintaining composure. In addition, lacking conscientiousness and lacking problem-solving ability can have particularly negative impacts on employees, across both nonacademic and academic skills.
The survey also delved into technology skills. Supervisors responded that they want employees with:
- Basic computer terminology skills
- An understanding of information security
- The ability to use email
- An understanding of information ethics, such as copyright, attribution and piracy
- The ability to use operating systems
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