Evaluating Skills
Skills represent your talents, abilities, and aptitudes. In short, what you are good at doing. Many people believe they have few skills, or that they do not have the right ones. In fact, the average person has numerous skills they do not give themselves credit for having, but yet possess. You have been acquiring these skills throughout your life. Discovering your skills and abilities is an important key to making career choices.
There are different types or groups of skills: Transferable, Self-Management, and Work Content.
Transferable Skills represent what you can do. These are skills acquired in one setting which can be applied to other settings. The same writing and research skills which helped you prepare a paper on "Persian Artifacts" can be transferred to a decision paper on the purchase of an office computer system. Below is a list of transferable skills. Check those which apply to you:
Brainstorming
Creating
Demonstrating
Designing
Developing
Editing
Following-through
Imagining
Influencing
Leading
Observing
Organizing
Paying Attention
Planning
Problem-Solving
Repairing
Researching
Speaking
Trouble-Shooting
Writing
Self Management Skills can be described as who you are. These are personal characteristics or traits, such as being accurate, open, logical, or thoughtful. Place check by the self management skills you have:
Adaptability
Consistency
Confidence
Creativity
Effectiveness
Empathy
Flexibility
Generosity
Helpfulness
Imagination
Intentionality
Kindness
Logic
Open-Mindedness
Patience
Professionalism
Reliability
Tenacity
Understanding
Versatility
Work Content Skills are what you know. These are specific skills that are crucial to one's performance in certain occupations, such as writing a computer program, speaking Spanish, or knowing how to operate certain types of equipment. These are usually the types of skills that are developed in your classes as well as through on-the-job training.
Clarifying
Communicating
Corresponding
Critical Thinking
Educating
Explaining
Knowledgeable
Managing
Mechanical
Methodical
Motivating
Negotiating
Persuasion
Processing
Resolving Conflict
Reviewing
Supervising
Team Work
Teaching
Typing