Skills represent your talents, abilities, and aptitudes - in short, what you are good at doing.  Many people believe they have few skills, or that they do not have the right ones.  In fact, the average person has around 800 skills.  You have been acquiring these skills throughout your life.  Discovering your skills and abilities is an important key to making career choices.

There are different types or groups of skills: self-management, transferable, and work-content.

Self-management skills can be described as who you are.  These are personal characteristics or traits, such as being accurate, open, logical, or thoughtful.  Place a check by the self-management skills you have:

Transferable skills represent what you can do.  These are skills acquired in one setting which can be applied to other settings.  The same writing and research skills which helped you prepare a paper on "Persian Artifacts" can be transferred to a decision paper on the purchase of an office computer system.  Below is a list of transferable skills - check those which apply to you:

Work-content skills are what you know.  These are specific skills that are crucial to one's performance in certain occupations - such as writing a computer program, speaking Spanish, or knowing how to operate certain types of equipment.  These are usually the types of skills that are developed in your classes as well as through on-the-job training.

For more information about career options based on your skills, you can arrange to complete an assessment of your personal pattern of skills using the Campbell Interest and Skills Survey or the Motivated Skills Card Sort.  Come to the Career Counseling Walk-in Hours to consult with a career counselor about these inventories.
 

If you would like information about the Card Sort Assessment Tool or any of the other counseling service provided by the CRC, you may contact our Career Counselors.

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