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Extra curricula activities and the development of employability skills

How has playing sport developed your employability skills?

I've been involved in sports, in the case blind football, and it’s helped me with my communication skills. Blind football is played with four outfield players and a sighted goal keeper, so communication is really important. In blind football you need to know how to listen to other people effectively in order to give and receive information and, after learning that skill, I have been able carry this forward in my education and now in employment.

And I’ve also learned how to keep deadlines and personal organisation, because in blind football we’ve travelled across Europe: France, Spain, Greece, Italy - a number of different counties. And you do learn how to become more organised, for example, packing your own suit case and being there on time. One of the big things you learn is how to empathise with other people. Because travelling to different countries allowed me to understand different cultures, and you become a more empathic person, and empathy, relating to other people, is very important within a culture of an organisation.