Are skills important?

My business teacher was telling us that skills are the most important thing employers look for when applying for a job when lots of people have the same qualifications as you . She said Duke of Edinburgh is the best choice to get skills you need and show to employers and uni when I grow up . But I don’t choose to do that since I don’t have enough spaces in my choices. Now I’m getting worried if I’m going to get in a good uni of get a good job even though I didn’t choose that. (I play team sport , does that count as skills I can show off to uni and employers?)

Is your business teacher a qualified careers adviser?
Does she have experience of any other career apart from teaching?

She said she used to work in a bar

Then I would not put any weight behind her careers advice.
Unless your career goals are bar work followed by teaching?