1. Chapter 5Assessing Your Skills Amanda Weeden Cameron Nathan Flores Christian Rodriguez Luis Alarcon Huy Pham
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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
8. Useful Links about Analyzing your Accomplishments Discover Your Skills PSA Featuring Mike Rowe Discoveryourskills.com
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
