1.5 Identify Your Skills
Build on what you have to offer
Validate your skills against the Skills Inventory
Everything you learn and every skill you have acquired becomes part of your personal toolkit. You
carry these "tools" with you as you move through school and into the job market. When you develop a
skill or gain experience in one place, and put what you've learned to use someplace else, you are
using transferable skills.
These skills can come from a lot of places - paid work, volunteering in your community, school, and even hobbies.
The next step on your journey is to identify your transferable skills. Look through the following
lists and check off every skill that you think you have.
Skills Inventory
Key Skills - I can:
- Meet deadlines
- Supervise others
- Solve problems
- Teach others and give clear instructions
- Manage people
- Organize and manage projects
- Speak in public
- Accept responsibility
- Plan daily work or special events
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Hands-on Skills - I can:
- Assemble kits
- Build or repair things
- Work well with my hands
- Operate tools or machinery
- Use complex equipment
- Drive or operate vehicles
- Inspect and maintain equipment or vehicles
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Data/Information Skills - I can:
- Make a budget, manage money
- Record facts, classify information by date
- Analyze data, audit and maintain records
- Check information for accuracy
- Pay attention to details
- Investigate and clarify results
- Locate answers, gather information
- Calculate or compute
- Evaluate
- Take inventory
- Keep financial records
- Research and write reports
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Leadership Skills - I can:
- Arrange meetings or social functions
- Be competitive when necessary
- Make decisions
- Direct the work of others
- Help set goals for my team
- Explain things to others
- Solve problems
- Motivate people
- Settle disagreements
- Plan activities and put them into action
- Take risks when necessary
- Organize and chair a meeting
- Show self-confidence
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People Skills - I can:
- Help and care for others
- Manage conflicts, resolve issues
- Counsel people
- Be tactful and diplomatic
- Interview people
- Be kind and understanding
- Be a good listener
- Negotiate
- Be outgoing
- Show patience
- Be pleasant and sociable
- Supervise, teach
- Be tough when necessary
- Trust people, my instincts
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Creative/Artistic Skills - I can:
- Be artistic
- Write short stories or articles
- Draw or create other art
- Express myself through music, poetry or art
- Design posters, draw cartoons and illustrations
- Perform and act
- Present artistic ideas
- Dance, create body movement
- Use computers to create presentations
- Design and lay out web pages
- Achieve high scores in video games
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Verbal Skills/Communication skills - I can:
- Clearly express myself
- Talk easily with others
- Create and talk about new ideas
- Design presentations
- Be inventive
- Conduct research in a library or on the Internet
- Set up my own network of experts, or helpers
- Be logical
- Speak in public
- Write clear and concise reports
- Work well with others
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