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2 SKILLS INVENTORY By reflecting on your coursework, summer jobs, internships, and co-curricular activities, give examples of the following to help identify skills valued by potential employers: Communication (e.g. oral, written, interpersonal: be specific) Organizational (e.g. attention to detail, setting priorities, follow-through) Management (e.g. leadership positions, supervisory experience) Computer (e.g. PC or Mac, profioieney in specific software) Language (e.g. level of fluency in additional languages) Problem-Solving (e:g. decision-making) Research (e.g. laboratory, survey, library) Quantitative (e.g. budgeting, data analysis) Other (e.g. creativity, innovation) over --~

3 Examples of Desired Skills achieve adapt advise analyze coach collaborate communicate conceptualize create decision make forecast formulate identify problems unplement initiate innovate interpret judgment lead manage people manage time negotiate organize persuade plan problem solve research teach " team build think logically tolerate ambiguity trouble shoot wdting Examples of Desired Traits adaptability creativity competence cooperation diligence diplomacy efficiency effeetiveriess enthusiasm flexibility honesty innovative maturity openness patience persistence positive attitude precision receptivity reliability resourcefulness responsibility self-starter talent tenacity tolerance warmth versatility

4 DIRECTIONS: (instructor only) One check have skills or used. Second check those you have AND enjoy doing. Total up DOUBLE checks. Write answers on bottom ofpg. 2 In order of Holland codes: 1. Social 2. Enterprising 3. Realistic 4. Investigative 5. Artistic 6. Conventional Processing Questions: What themes did you notice? Which skills were Personal Skills? Which are specific to one job? Which might be used as transferable skills to any job? Did they match your Holland Codes on the O NET assessment? What did you notice you did NOT like? What skills don t you have you would like to acquire in your future? What skills do you want to avoid? And is this realistic?? How can you plan to learn skills which you don t have that might be necessary in your career? If you don t have some skills, you have the opportunity to gain those while here at college and experiences you will encounter though your college career though class work, internships, future jobs, etc. These skills can be used on r6sum6s and in interviews to highlight your skills.

5 Transferable Skills Assessment Name: 1. Think about what you can do and have done. List not only skills you are using or have used in the past, but also skills you have developed through hobbies, volunteer/community involvement, household management, leisure time activities or other involvements. 2. Look over the following list of transferable skills and place a cheekmark (~/) by all of those skills you possess and have used in some way. 3. Next, put a second checkmark (~/) by those skills which you not only have but also enjoy using. 4. Now go through the list looking at all of the skills with a double checkmark. Determine which of these skills would be most important for you to use in a job and draw a circle around them. Prioritize your top 10 skills in order of importance to you. 1. Totals care giving listening/understanding collaborating with others hosting or hostessing providing service teaching, tutoring leading, facilitating enabling others to help themselves 2. Totals initiating problem solving making hard decisions managing responsibility designing, developing chairing meetings working with committees developing potential in people 3. Totals physical coordination plant care, farming reading and using maps outdoor work repairing athletic ability cooking building construction being sensitive counseling, guiding motivating others creating pleasant environments encouraging advising, informing creating a learning environment advocating, negotiating for others public speaking plam~ing/promoting change leading others delegating responsibility hiring, team building perstmdingiinfluencing others promoting an idea/product organizing, coordinating others auto repah" animal care physical stamina designing, shaping camping electronics mechanical reasoning lifting, balancing empathizing communicating warmth supporting, mentoring help with personal problems briefing, explaining training inspiring illustrating concepts with examples selling taking risks motivating, inspiring others planning, forecasting implementing policies negotiating, bargaining confronting others establishing procedures, organizational structures drafting manual dexterity assembling, installing blueprint reading precision work plumbing spatial perception using tools, operating equipment 4. Totals scientific ability learning quickly mathematical ability investigating people/data/things interpreting data, tables, graphs, charts clarifying problems diagnosing reviewing, critiquing evaluating questioning anticipating problems gathering information understanding people and behavior analyzing reasoning, abstracting using logic observing, reflecting on people/ data!things perceiving potential in others assessing/appraising classifying solving puzzles or figuring out how things work researching/surveying organizing testing ideas generating ideas

6 5. Totals imagining/intuiting developing/formulating adaptive, has insight singing sketching, drawing, or painting following the story line and message in movies, plays and books visualizing colors, shapes, and improvising/inventing synthesizingiinte~cating aesthetic sense expressive verbally/nonverbally symbolizing words, images, and concepts designing new programs/ materials fashioning or shaping things, materials innovating/creating ideas predicting/showing foresight staging/directing productions creative learning foreign languages writing poetry/plays/stories conveying feelings and thoughts through body movement, face and/or voice tone 6. Totals organizing writnten material and numerical data allocating resources statistical work accepting responsibility analyzing quantitative data getting things done editing operating office machines financial bookkeeping reports computing/calculating numbers cost analysis following through organizing time to accomplish tasks making arrangements, contacts coordinating setting up business/office systems managing budgets/money financial planning keeping deadlines organizing records, filing, classifying, processing typing, keypunching, operating a calculator or other office machines attention to detail systematizing keeping accurate records Yore" top 10 skills not in order Your top 10 skills in order (with #1 being the one you most want to use.) Other things to try on your own This site comes up with careers related to the skills you have. You can then click on a link to find out more about that occupation. h~ttp:// This site just gives you some ideas for working conditions you might find important in your job selection.

7 I.{nouJing I.l.Ihot You Do SECTION1 : }(E~ SKILLS IN CAREER PLANNING AND [~ECIStON-MAKINB What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson To determine your best career choices; ~U must be able to identify and build on your skills and abilities. In the following ~hecldist, I ask you to give more thought to those dimensions of yourself. Rate Yourself Excellent, Good, or Fair on each skill and then choose your top ten Skills in each area. SLOES WORI(II~G WITH PEOPLE Skill Rating (Excellent, Good, Fair) Acting Advising Advocacy Arbitration Clarifying Client!customer relations -- Coaching Collaborating Communicating Conflict management Consulting Counseling -- Creating synergles Debating Decision-making (continued.) JIST Wo ~s ~

8 JOB SEARCH AND CAREER CHECKLISTS SI(ILLS WORI(II~G WITH PEOPLE Skill Delegating Demonstrating Developing people Diplomacy/tact Directing Effecfing change Entertaining Facilitating Helping others Hosting Influencing Initiating Instructing Interrogating Interviewing Leadership Listening Litigation Managing people Mediation Mentoring Monitoring Motivating Negotiation Nurturing Performing Rating (Excellent, Good, Fair)

9 SECTION 1: KEY SKILLS IN CAREER PLANNING AND [~ECISION-MAI(ING Skill Placating Policing Promoting Public speaking Recruiting Representing Sales Socializing Supervising Teaching Team-building Training Summary of Top Ten People Skills SI(ILLS WORI(II~G WITH PEOPLE Rating (Excellent, Good, Fair) --~ JIST WORKS

10 Skill Accounting Analyzing Appraising Assessing Auditing Bookkeeping Budgeting Calculating Cataloguing Charting Classifying Compiling data Computer programming Conceptualizing Creating Designing Drafting Drawing Driving Editing Evaluating Experimenting Financial planning Fund-raising Forecasting Formulating policy Hypothesizing Interpreting S~(ILLS V~ORI(I~]G NIH D~TA A/~D IHI~]GS Rating (Excellent, Good, Fair)

11 Skill Inventing Investing Machine operation Mechanical aptitude Planning Policy analysis Policy development Problem analysis Problem-solvlng Program design Program development Project design Project development Project management Reading blueprints Reducing costs Regulating Reorganizing Researching Reviewing Scheduling Spatial relations Surveying System analysis System design Testing Troubleshooting Typing Using tools SI(ILLS WOR~(ING ~VITH DATA AND THINGS Rating (Excellent, Good, Fair)

12 Summary of Top Ten Skills with Data and Things 1. ;~. ;~

13 Extracurricular Transferable Skills Job Title: Skills that apply: Career Services The University of Toledo Student Union eer Job Title: Skills that apply: Extracurricular Transferable Skills Career Services The University of Toledo Student Union