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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

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

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

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