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• 1. Self Assessment
  • 1.1 Pride Experiences
    • 1.1.1 My Pride List
    • 1.1.2 Writing Your Stories
  • 1.2 Personality
    • 1.2.1 Personality Checklist
  • 1.3 Values
  • 1.4 Skills
    • 1.4.1 Your Skills
  • 1.5 Interests
    • 1.5.1 Your Career Interests
    • 1.5.2 Understanding Career Clusters
  • 1.6 Knowledge
    • 1.6.1 Identifying Your Style
  • 1.7 Self-employment
  • 1.8 Integrating Your Assessment
• 2. Research
• 3. Decision-Making
• 4. Networks & Contacts
• 5. Work
• 6. Life/Work Planning

Step 1.4 Analysing Your Skills

This exercise will help you to define and identify your skills This process will take 15-30 minutes

A skill is learned ability to do something well. Skills are the currency used by workers. In the labour market you receive pay in exchange for the skills that you offer and use at work. Individuals who can describe themselves to a potential employer in terms of their skills are more likely to find the work that they want and enjoy.

If you were asked right now to list your skills, what would your list look like? It might be a short list, not because you do not have the skills, but simply because you have never been asked to identify them and are not accustomed to thinking and talking about them. Each person has approximately 700 different skills in their repertoire. Most individuals have trouble identifying them and if they do recognize them, they don’t feel right promoting them. However, you cannot afford this kind of misdirected modesty. Before you can be confident about your ability to move through a changing work world, you have to realistically know what your strengths are.

The following exercise is designed to help you identify your skills. You have 3 choices for this exercise. Click on the text for your choice. You can:

1. View it as a normal Web page and print it.
2. Download it to your desktop as an Adobe Reader file (pdf). You can save it and print it.
3. Download it to your desktop as a Microsoft Word file. You can choose to work on it on your computer, save it and / or print it.

To continue with Step 1.5, click here.