Skills and Attributes: Be creative
Fuel your potential with skills to shape your future.
Critical thinking
Make better decisions, solve challenges, and approach work and life with confidence and clarity by:
- developing the ability to identify questions or problems and consider and evaluate the accuracy of information
- being investigative and using evidence-based decision-making
- applying subject knowledge to think through and beyond discipline expertise
- unpacking information and critically analysing its validity
- challenging ideas
Problem solving
Learn how to turn setbacks into opportunities and drive your success through:
- identifying, understanding and generating ideas to solve problems
- being strategic in identifying opportunities to generate answers to challenges
- offering different perspectives to engage with issues and questions
Digital and AI
Embrace the digital and AI skills to stay ahead in a fast-paced world by:
- being able to learn, work and live independently and with others safely in an increasingly digital world
- building and applying knowledge of a range of digital applications
- being proficient in the ethical use and critique of AI tools
Ready to skill up?
Success comes from learning, improving, and growing every day.
Start your journey by reflecting on your skills and assess where you are. Use the self-assessment tool in My Progress. It’ll help you uncover the skills and personal attributes you already have. They’re your strengths. Lean into them.
It’ll also highlight areas where you can grow. But don’t see these as weaknesses: they’re the foundations of your development plan.
More ways to become creative
Every experience, big or small, can strengthen your employability.
It can also help you develop the confidence, character, and skills you'll carry with you for life.
Here’s some more ways to skill up:
- Join a student society or create a new one: explore interests, share ideas and find innovative solutions to problems. Starting a new society needs imagination, initiative, and the confidence to turn an idea into action.
- START UP a business, social enterprise or go freelance: think differently and spot opportunities. Shape what’s next with the support of our team.
- Learn something new: sign up for a free online course, learn a new creative skill or a new language - it’ll encourage fresh thinking and new perspectives.