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Skills are learned abilities. In this post, you will learn how to:
- Assess current skills
- Types of skills
- Identify skills to learn
- Develop skills
- Describe skills
ASSESS current skills. Look over the Work Skills List. Do you have the top skills that employers want? The Career Search Process can help to evaluate skills. At Discover U in Ten Steps, find a free printable self-assessment form and links to free online tools. More tools to explore skills are at the Discover U Toolkit at Wakelet or via Google. The Skills Assessment at CareerOneStop and at onetonline.org are great places to start identifying your skills.
Types of Skills – Identifying your skills at dol.georgia.gov describes these skills:
- Job skills are specific to an occupation, like special computer software or reading blueprints.
- Transferable skills are general work skills like the ability to use a computer program or writing a report.
- Self management skills are personal qualities like being analytical or reliable.
More Skills (see more links at the Work Skills List)
- Work Skills like customer service and meetings
- Leadership Skills like coaching and team building
- Soft Skills like communication and working with others
- Computer Skills like word processing and email
- Life Skills like goal setting and time management.
See The Work Skills Toolkit for more information.
The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) identified skills needed for success in the world of work. They categorize skills as: Basic Skills, Thinking Skills, and Personal Qualities. People Skills are included at Career Key. Try an online assessment of SCANS skills.
Look at your work experience and list the different skills you have used. You can look at it two ways:
- Specific to general: what job duties were performed? what projects were accomplished? What transferable skills and self-management skills were demonstrated? or
- General to specific: How have you demonstrated self-management and transferable skills in your work?
IDENTIFY a target skill to develop. Which skill, if improved, would have the most impact? Use a development plan and find learning activities to set a goal for developing the skill.
DEVELOP the skill. Find many resources at Develop Work Skills and The Development Center at the Daily PlanIt Sticky Wiki. Find more links at the Work Skills Pinterest Board.
DESCRIBE skills. Learn how to describe your accomplishments with specific examples at Marketing U.
- Discover your heroes
- Identify your strengths
- Explore your skills
- Examine your beliefs
- Look at your values
- Develop a mission statement
- Learn about your personality and interests
- Think about your talents and goals
- Tell your story
- Express yourself
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