Skills

GENERAL or COMMON SKILLS

Instrumental

• ability to analyse and summarise ability to organise and plan
• good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in their mother tongue
• good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in a foreign language
• study-related IT skills
• a capacity to analyse, review and classify information from different sources
• the ability to structure and project information
• problem-solving abilities
• the ability to apply professional criteria to problem analysis, based on technical instruments

Personal

• motivation towards quality and responsibility in the workplace
• creativity, initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit
• the ability to work in a team with an ease of communication
• the ability to work in a team which covers a range of activities
• the ability to work in an international environment
• skills in inter-personal relationships
• the capacity to work in diverse and multi-cultural environments: recognising and respecting diversity
• the ability to think through ideas
• an ethical commitment to work
• good at working under pressure

Systematic

• Autonomous learning
• Adapting to new situations
• creativity
• leadership
• initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit
• quality-driven
• being sensitive to environmental and social issues

Practical

• applying knowledge to real situations
• the ability to research
• designing and managing projects
• an ability to develop economic and business-related issues

Specific Professional Skills

• the ability to analyse and apply accounting techniques and rules
• the ability to draw up and interpret the data contained in yearly accounts
• the ability to solve legal, political and conceptual problems which may be encountered during the running of a business
• the ability to analyse and apply the principles of constitutional, civil, business and labour law
• a sound working knowledge of the different tax structures
• the ability to analyse the instruments of economic policy
• knowledge and analysis of how economic factors work
• knowing and analysing how markets work
• knowing how to analyse the challenge of business through the management functions (planning, organisation, human resource management and control)
• knowing how to identify and analyse the functional areas of a company
• knowing how to design and carry out business strategies (corporate and competitive)
• knowing how to design and develop a financial plan
• knowing how to formulate an investment-funding strategy in the company
• knowing how to analyse and interpret the data which the company has at its disposal
• knowing how to analyse the sales strategy, targets and sales policy
• knowing how to use Information and Communication Technologies in different areas
• knowing how to lead groups of people
• knowing how to carry out anaylsis and diagnosis, provide back-up and take decisions in the area of organisational structure
• knowing how to apply techniques and take decisions in the field of human resource management