Work your way through each of the assessments described below.
 

Your interests	Your motivators
Your preferred skills	Your personality
Your preferred work values	Your educational aspirations

Skill Assessment

Note down the skills that you possess or plan to develop


Communication Skills

• Negotiating, bargaining, persuading, debate issues without being abrasive to others

• Greeting, representing others to the public, sell, demostrate product or service

• Possess courteous telephone skills

• Reporting, conveying information, explaining

• Listening

• Interviewing, elicit views, probe for information

• Demonstrating skills in the use of language, grammar and punctuation

• Expressing ideas non-verbally, editing, revising, prepare concise and logically written materials

• Organize and present ideas effectively for formal and spontaneous speeches

• Participate in group discussions

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Interpersonal Skills

• Maintain group cooperation and support

• Interact effectively with peers, superiors and subordinates

• Express one's feelings appropriately

• Understand the feelings of others

• Make commitments to people

• Analyze behavior of self and others in group situations

• Demonstrate effective social behavior in a variety of settings and under different circumstances

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Decision-Making Skills

• Understand the steps involved with effective decision-making

• Facilitate groups in the decision-making process

• Implement sound decisions

• Take responsibility for decisions

• Evaluate the effects and effectiveness of a decision

• Be able to make decisions without feeling pressured

• Remain flexible with decisions

• Explain unpopular decisions to others

• Assess a course of action in terms of its long-range effects on the general human welfare

• Make decisions that will maximize both individual and collective good

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution Skills

• Anticipate problems before they occur

• Define the problem and identify possible/apparent causes

• Identify possible alternative solutions and select the most appropriate ones

• Develop plans to implement solutions

• Create innovative solutions to complex problems

• Adapt one's concepts and behavior to changing conventions and norms

• Identify quickly and accurately the critical issues when making a decision or solving a problem

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Critical Thinking Skills

• Identify a general principle that explains interrelated experiences of factual data

• Identify reasonable criteria for assessing the value or appropriateness of an action or behavior

• Apply appropriate criteria to strategies and action plans

• Take given premises and reasons to their conclusion

• Analyze the interrelationships of events and ideas from several perspectives

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above
   

Teamwork and Team building Skills

• Motivate team members to work toward common goals

• Understand strengths and weaknesses of members and use strengths to build team development

• Collaborate on projects

• Support and praise one another for reaching goals and accomplishments

• Work effectively with organization members

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Organizational Skills

• Facilitate brainstorming activities

• Identify tasks to be accomplished

• Facilitate discussions on program planning processes

• Give constructive feedback

• Pull together elements in an orderly, functional and structured whole

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Design and Planning Skills

• Conceptualizing, inventing, creating new techniques, adapting, refining, designing, visualizing

• Ideas, sketching, developing programs, courses of action

• Imagining alternatives, formulating and using principles

• Forecasting, predicting, foreseeing, perceiving trends

• Setting goals, estimating and assessing needs

• Making and keeping a schedule, managing time

• Effectively, accommodate multiple demands for commitment of time, energy and resources

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Human Service Skills

• Empathizing, offering support, sensitive to feelings, caring

• Recognizing needs

• Developing rapport, establishing relationships, accepting others

• Raising self-esteem, encouraging others

• Helping others see themselves

• Teaching, mentoring, guiding, coaching

• Counseling, advising

• Cooperating

• Group facilitating

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Artistic/Creative Expression

• Prepare and decorate foods, desserts, breads, etc.

• Present personal views on such subjects as politics, social conditions, and religion

• Critique plays or other writings

• Influence the opinions of people through words

• Read literature and prepare summaries

• Understand and pply artistic principles and techniques

• Visualize how the final product will look from rough sketches or work drawings

• Choose the most appropriate equipment to express an idea or create a particular effect

• Perform before an audience with poise and self-confidence

• Interpret roles, and express ideas and emotions through gestures, facial expressions, and voice inflections

• Understand the script author's ideas and demonstrate to others methods of moving or speaking to convey these ideas to an audience

• speak clearly and loudly, memorize dialogue and respond to cues promptly

• Spend long hours developing and perfecting your talent, and, even after becoming extremely skilled, continue to practice daily

• Recognize and follow music symbols and oral or written instructions for interpreting music properly

• Understand the qualities of various musical instruments and consider these in orchestrating or arranging compositions to create desired effects

• Apply musical theories and techniques to direct performances of vocal or instrumental groups

• Use eyes, hands, and fingers skillfully to guide tools precisely

• Look at an object and notice tiny flaws which should be removed or repaired

• Imaginative, creative, inventive, innovative

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Information Management Skills

• Organizing, creating procedures, systemizing

• Cataloging, compiling, classifying, sorting, ranking information

• Translating, interpreting, summarizing and simplifying

• Recording, updating

• Calculating, computing

• Attending to detail, carrying out requests

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Financial Management Skills

• Develop a budget accurately estimating expenses and income

• Justify the organization's budget to others

• Work within a budget

• Keep accurate and complete financial records

• Ensure timeliness of payments

• Develop and implement a fund-raising event

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Administrative, Managerial and/or Leadership Skills

• Initiate an idea, plan or task, analyze tasks, organize people and tasks to achieve specific goals

• Formulate a series of steps to meet goals and objectives, make decisions, accept responsibility

• Delegate responsibility for completion of a task, supervise, manage, coordinate, keep a group "on track" and moving toward the achievement of a goal, inspiring others

• Develop guidelines and strategies for carrying out a course of action

• Use effective coaching/mentoring skills with peers or subordinates

• Identify people who can contribute to the solution of a problems or task, enlisting help, sharing credit with others

• Identify resource materials useful in the solution of a problem, finding short cuts, improvising, allocating scarce resources

• Bring about a settlement or agreement by bargaining, use argumentation techniques to persuade others

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Scientific, Mathematical, Research and Investigative Skills

• Use logic or scientific thinking to deal with many different kinds of problems

• Use non-verbal symbols (such as numbers) to express ideas and solve problems

• gather and interpret data

• Understand and express complex technical and scientific information

• Recognize textures, colors, shapes, and sizes

• Use words, numbers, diagrams and chemical formulas

• Make decisions based on information that can be measured or verified

• Understand and use scientific and technical language and symbols

• Work precisely and accurately

• Measuring, designing an experiment, plan or model that systematically defines a problem

• Formulate questions relevant to clarifying a particular problem, topic or issue

• Observing, reflecting, using insight

• Experimenting, dissecting, apply a variety of methods to test the validity of data

• Analyzing, conceptualizing, abstracting

• Synthesizing, classifying, comparing, finding patterns, diagnosis, developing hypothesis

• Locating necessary resources, use a variety of sources of information

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Physical Performing

• Master all rules of a particular sport and interpret them accurately

• Make official decisions quickly

• Coordinate eye, hand, body, and foot movements with skill

• Adjust to the physical and emtal pressures of competition

• Follow training rules strictly

• Take the risk of physical injury

• Judge distance, speed, and movement of objects or people

Mechanical/Technical Skills

• Building, making, repairing objects

• Drive or operate vehicles and special equipment

• Apply mechanical principles to practical situations using machines or hand tools

• Mechanical ingenuity and dexterity, physical coordination and agility, precision

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above

Personal and Career Development Skills

• Analyze and learn from life experiences--both one's own and others

• Relate the skills developed in one environment (school, for instance) to the requirements of another environment (work)

• Match knowledge about one's own characteristics and abilities to information about job or career opportunities

• Identify, describe and assess the relative importance of one's needs, values, interest, strengths and weaknesses

• Develop personal growth goals that are motivating

• Identify and describe skills acquired through formal education and general life experiences

• Identify one's own strengths and weaknesses

• Accept and learn from negative criticism

• Persist with a project when faced with failure unless it is clear that the project cannot be carried out or is not worth the time or effort required to complete it

• Generate trust and confidence in others

• Take risks

• Accepts the consequences of one's actions

• Seek additional opportunities for professional development

• Regularly participate in a healthy combination of activities for stress management

• Evaluate personal and professional strengths and weaknesses

• Discern appropriate behaviors for the workplace

• Other skills you think belong in this category, but not listed above