English Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Education

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English Skills List in Education

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for an English role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of English job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 67% of English job descriptions contained english teacher as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

english teacher
67%
english
67%
teacher
54%
graduate
34%
qts
34%
teaching
34%
teacher of english
34%
english language
34%
english literature
34%
ks3
20%
language
20%
literature
20%
north london
20%
enfield
20%
secondary
20%
ks4
20%
gravesend
14%
dartford
14%
crayford
14%
bromley
14%
pgce
14%
bexleyheath
14%
bexley
14%
secondary education
14%
secondary teacher
7%
secondary schools
7%
chesham
7%
key stage 4
7%
key stage 3
7%
gcse
7%
education
7%
ect
7%
qualified teacher
7%
buckinghamshire
7%
semh
7%
pru
7%
academic
7%
nqt
7%
caerphilly
7%
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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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