Chapter 5Assessing Your

Skills

Amanda WeedenCameron

Nathan FloresChristian Rodriguez

Luis Alarcon Huy Pham

Defining Skills

-Skills are the currency of the job market

We must have skills for a job

Specific attributes

Talents

Personal qualities

Daily living and interacting development

The affects of skills

Types of Skills

Self-Motivators: skills we enjoy and do well

Functional skills are used to accomplish general tasks or functions

Work-Containing skills are specific and specialized to one job

Adaptive or self-management skills are personal attributes; also known as personal traits or soft skills

Identifying Your Skills

Reflecting your skills may be difficult because we were taught not to brag

False assumptions make it difficult

Hundreds of sills acquired just by life experiences and one part of your portfolio

Identifying Your Skills

Don’t categorize yourself too narrowly

Ex: “I am a student” or “I am a conservative”

These labels tend to lead to stereotype at your job interviews.

Be more specific about certain skills you possess!

Ex: “My experiences involve public speaking and working over weekends effectively.

Analyzing Your Accomplishments

accomplishments: completed activities, goals, projects or jobs held

sample accomplishments: getting into college, repairing a car, planning a surprise party, completing a degree, getting a job, mastering a sport, overcoming a bad habit, giving a speech

Analyzing Your Accomplishments

some may seem simple and like no big deal, but they are accomplishments

you can analyze your accomplishments in several ways

identify and list skills required to complete them

a pattern of skills are your self-motivators that can be used in future endeavors

the following activities are a good way to analyze your accomplishments as well

Useful Links about Analyzing your Accomplishments

Discover Your Skills PSA Featuring Mike Rowe

Discoveryourskills.com

Transferable Skills

-transferable skills are skills you carry from one job to another

1. Reviewing a tradition national report on skills considered necessary by employers (SCANS skills)

2. Reviewing skills one develops while being a secondary school student as well as a college student

3. Reviewing a nation Bureau of Labor Statistics website that connects skills ...to occupations

Transferable Skills

-SCANS acronym for Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

U.S. Department of Labor issued a report

The skills of today

1. Professional/Work ethnic

2. Communications (written and oral)

3. Teamwork/Collaboration

4. Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

Now work on your skills for your future

Identifying Your Transferable Skills

A liberal arts degree is a preparation for variety of careers

Majority of graduate with a liberal arts degree do not find work in their field.

Communication skills: Listening with a good ear and writing essays and reports or group activities where ideas are shared.

Identifying Your Transferable Skills

Problem Solving or Critical thinking: Is when one is to be an Analytical or abstractly thinker and is able to determine broader issues and able to define them. Creating solutions and handling a new way of problem solving.

Human skills: By speaking and advising helps solve and resolve problems. Communication ideas effectively cooperating with others to solve and complete projects.

Identifying Your Transferable Skills

Organization skills: Planning or arranging social events and delegating responsibility to others.

Research skills: By computerizing the date base, you will be able to use references and themes or analyzing data. You will be able to have more detail when research is done.

Your Most Valuable Assets

Personalities traits are those that are called natural abilities

Skills that we have naturally without training or education

A positive attitude, persistence, confidence sense of humor

Identifying your personal traits, set you apart from the crowd

these abilities help you sell yourself and along with your talents when added with your transferable skills.

The Portfolio Employee

Your skills are your most valuable asset because it is transferable between jobs

The more skills you acquire through education or jobs the more versatile you are in the job market.

Books such as The Future of Work and Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind

workers will not completely belong to one organization but work for several employers on a freelance.

Thank You!