Careers Assessment: Skills Analysis 2 of 3
Careers Assessment: Skills Analysis 2 of 3
Analysing your skills is an essential career planning activity. After all if you don’t know your skills how can you let potential employers know about the skills that they are looking for .
Here we are looking at Self Management Skills and Special knowledge and Work Content Skills.
This article should be read in conjunction with Careers Assessement Skills Analysis 1
Self- Management Skills
Review the table below and select your top 8 skills areas.
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Self Management Skills
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Alert(ness) Astute(ness) Attention to detail Authority, handles well Aware(ness)
Calm(ness) Candid(ness) Challenge, thrives on Committed Competent Concentration Concerned Conscientious(ness) Co-operative(co-operation) Creative
Dependable (dependability) Diplomatic (diplomacy) Discreet Driven Dynamic Dress high standard
Easygoing Empathetic Energetic Enthusiastic Experienced Expressive Firm Flexible (flexibility)
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Goal Orientated
High energy level Honest(y)
Innovative (showing innovation) Insight(ful) Integrity, displays constant Judgement, Loyal(ty)
Mature
Natural(ness)
Objective Open-minded Optimistic Orderly Outgoing
Patient (patience) People orientated Perceptive Perseverance Persistence Pioneering Polite(ness) Prioritise Punctual |
Reliable Resourceful Responsible Risk-taking
Self-confident Self-reliant Sense of humour Sensitive Sincere Spontaneous Strikes balance Successful Sympathetic
Tactful Takes nothing for granted Thinks on his/her feet Thorough Tidy Tolerant
Versatile Vigorous
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Self Management Skills.
Having created your short list of self management skills use it when you are analysing a specific job opportunity. In the details of the job what self management skills are they highlighting?
Which of the self management skills on your list should you make sure you cover in your resume and interview preparation?
Are they looking for self-management skills that you don’t have? if so what are you going to do about that?
Special Knowledge or Work Content Skills
Special Knowledge or Work Content Skills are skills that we have learned which involve a language, procedure or subject matter. We learn them in various ways.
On the job, e.g.
How to operate computer/video equipment
How to use certain equipment
Seminars/Workshops, e.g.
Selling skills
Computer software packages
Public speaking
From reading or talking to others, e.g.
Knowledge of current business environments and trends
Knowledge of particular industries
University or School, e.g.
Languages – Japanese, Indonesian
Law
Accounting
Again note any specific relevant skills you have in these areas and add them to your list of skills.
Well done you have now completed your skills inventory and should have in your transferable skills list
1. Functional/Transferable Skills
2. Self Management Skills
3. Special knowledge or work content skills.
In article 3 of these series we will show you how to group these skills so they can be
used on your resume/CV .
Good luck with your career planning.
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