Employers value Historians as they possess transferable skills. Historians are creative and critical thinkers who deliver on time. They:

• Formulate convincing and cogent arguments.
• Express themselves with coherence, clarity and fluency.
• Gather, organise and deploy diverse sources of evidence.
• Exercise self-discipline, self-direction and independent thought.
• Appreciate complexity and diversity of situations, events and mentalities.
• Adhere to rules of evidence with integrity and maturity.
• Use texts and a wide array of source materials critically.
• Command knowledge to contextualise and comprehend situations and problems.
• Understand how people have existed, acted and thought in context.
• Reflect critically on the nature of evidence and on theoretical underpinnings.
• Utilise ICT, retrieve information and present effectively.
• Respect others’ reasoned views but subject them to critical analysis.
• Work collaboratively and participate effectively in group work.
• Show empathy and imaginative insight.
• Display initiative.