What Are Meta Skills? (and Why Do Employers Look For Them?)
The job market is always dynamic. To stay visible to recruiters, you need to have marketable skills. Presumably, you already know which hard skills are in demand in your field.
But have you heard about meta skills? And more importantly — are you developing these competencies?
If you never heard a meta skills definition before and don’t quite understand the buzz, this guide gives you a detailed lowdown.
So What Are Meta Skills?
Meta skills (also referred to as metacognitive skills) describe your ability to retain information, learn new consents, and then apply this knowledge quickly.
In other words: meta skills describe your abilities to decide how you’ll approach mastering new tasks, steps you’ll take to solve a problem, or the ability to evaluate the achieved outcomes.
…Metacognition is the process by which learners use knowledge of the task at hand, knowledge of learning strategies, and knowledge of themselves to plan their learning, monitor their progress toward a learning goal, and then evaluate the outcome.
