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, 61% of English job descriptions contained english teacher as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

english teacher
61%
english
42%
teaching
24%
qts
24%
tefl
20%
language
16%
literature
16%
secondary school
16%
teacher
16%
teacher of english
14%
training
12%
esl
12%
buckinghamshire
12%
ect
12%
pgce
10%
secondary
8%
young professionals
8%
secondary teacher
6%
english language
6%
english literature
6%
classroom
4%
qtls
4%
cover supervisor
4%
cover teacher
4%
education
4%
ks4 teacher
4%
media
4%
ks4
4%
ks3
4%
swale
4%
supply
4%
general
4%
cover
4%
sen teacher
2%
qualified teacher
2%
key stage 2
2%
key stage 1
2%
early careers teacher
2%
primary teacher
2%
ks2
2%
ks1
2%
early childhood education
2%
learning support
2%
literacy
2%
full time
2%
english tutor
2%
english specialist
2%
literacy teacher
2%
language teacher
2%
creative writing
2%
qualified
2%
nqt
2%
ks5
2%
semantics
2%
history
2%
teaching assistant
2%
lsa
2%
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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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