When applying for a placement it is important to provide evidence of your skills and how you acquired them. This can come from your academic work, social work, interests you pursue, paid work or voluntary work. The company that hosts a virtual traineeship has several expectations with regard to the trainee’s knowledge, skills, and competences useful for the position offered. Usually, a company needs employees who have commercial awareness and the following skills: analytical skills, decision-making, digital skills, influencing, initiative, leadership, negotiating, networking, oral communication, planning, presentation, problem solving, self- awareness, self-confidence, self- management, team working, tenacity, time- management, willingness to learn, and written communication skills.

It is obvious that management skills are very critical for any company. In addition, the personal traits of character play an important role. For an international company, multicultural sensitivity and awareness are also very significant. Companies need responsible, loyal and honest employees who are creative and able to work under pressure. To become successful in the world of work, trainees should identify their employability skills and personal traits and values which are critical for their position. The next step is to assess the degree to which trainees possess them, and then begin to market them by building them into his/her CV, motivation letter and interview answers. Several diverse assessments should be taken to help learn more about themselves and give him/her a well-rounded picture of himself/herself. The two lists below describe different sets of skills; the work-related skills describe transferable skills which are both desirable and advantageous for all employees, whereas work-based learning skills involve the learner drawing upon subject knowledge and theory, combined with their experience, to utilise the workplace in personal development.