Assistant Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Education

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Assistant Skills List in Education

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an Assistant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Assistant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 45% of Assistant job descriptions contained teaching assistant as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

teaching assistant
45%
secretary
23%
customer service
23%
library
23%
library assistant
23%
secondary
23%
admin
23%
receptionist
23%
written communication
12%
positive team player
12%
organisational skills
12%
diplomatic
12%
flexible approach
12%
communication skills
12%
library service
12%
proactive
12%
eyfs
12%
primary school
12%
key stage 2
12%
semh
12%
ebd
12%
hlta
12%
learning support assistant
12%
level 3 teaching assistant
12%
literacy
12%
numeracy
12%
nursery practitioner
12%
primary school teaching assistant
12%
key stage 1
12%
send
12%
ta
12%
toileting
12%
1-1
12%
1:1
12%
ehcp
12%
early years
12%
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While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

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