I don't think I currently have any skills I could be paid money to do?
That seems to be a problem. I think you should fix it.
If you can't come up with a convincing answer as to why an employer should hire you, chances are the employer won't bother to think one up for you.
What sort of marketable skills might one have, as an undergraduate student without previous work experience, that I should be trying to think of?
That's basically the question of which job should you get post-college :-) There is a large variety of possible skills -- from accounting to website creation.
This graduate scheme at Aldi, which I would be way out of my depth with and I mostly remember because it's absurdly well-paid for an entry level graduate position, $62,000 in 'murican-money, doesn't ask for anything that I would actually think of as a skill that you could be paid money to do. You need a 2:1 degree, a driver's license, and a certain package of personal virtues and personality traits. There are a lot of things like that for graduates, and it's mostly those things that I'm looking at, with the issue being a lot of choice and difficulty identifying which ones are better than others.
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