Employers seem to want the generic skills that a university education provides like being self motivated and things like research skills.

In the 2010 edition of the guide, the university also earned five stars for staff qualifications and graduate's satisfaction with the generic skills they learned while studying.

All students are given generic skills such as high level thinking, study skill, researching, communication and material finding.

In these kinds of multitasking desktop-publishing environments, Human Resources may even classify proofreading as a clerical skill generic to literacy itself.

However, whether tent pegging developed cavaliers' generic skills or prepared them for specific combat situations is shrouded in anecdote and national chauvinism.

These generic skills are difficult to develop in isolation and require feedback and interaction with other individuals.

It aims to cater for individual differences, develop students' knowledge, generic skills (e.g. communication skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking skills) and attitudes.

There may be no direct collaboration between SBUs, but what Porter calls the same generic skills may be called upon.

Training also encompasses the generic professional skills applicable to all areas of medicine - team work, time management, communication and IT skills.

Long after you have left Hitler, Stalin and Vietnam behind, these generic skills are with you for life.