April 8, 2018
What You Have To Offer 0
The most critical element in the job search is self-esteem. What you think about yourself affects how you feel about yourself and shapes your expectations. Your behavior follows. If you think you can’t succeed (“no one will want me because I was laid off/I’m too old/I’m not educated enough”), you’ll feel defeated by your negative thoughts and expect rejection. And you’ll behave in a way that’s likely to create that result.
Henry Ford once said: “Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you will be right.”
Skills Inventory
Start gathering information about yourself by identifying your skills. Make a list of all the skills you know you have. (That’s product knowledge.) These will fall into three groups: technical skills, transferable skills, and self-management skills.
1. Technical skills: These are the skills you most likely learned in a formal training or academic program or through a combination of school, college, and on-the-job training. This group of competencies may be the least useful as you look for work outside your field. Frank’s technical skills in petroleum engineering skills are not in demand in the workplace. These are his least marketable
2. Transferable skills: Also called functional skills, these are the skills you have been developing throughout your life. They are interchangeable with almost any work situation.
3. Self-Management Skills: Job seekers seem less aware of their self-management skills, but this set of abilities is the decisions influencing most employers.
Your self-management skills communicate your attitude and motivation. These are the skills you have immediate control over and the power to change!
Myth: Get a university degree, and your success is guaranteed. Reality: That was true 30 years ago, but it’s not true today. Often, vocational and community college graduates are as employable as university grads since employers increasingly seek job-ready applicants with specific technical and work content skills.
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April 8, 2018
Transferable Skills 0
by Wordscapes® • Job Search Tips, Personal Development • Tags: transferable skills
Go through the transferable skills on this page and check off all the ones you have.Now, go through the list again and put a second check mark beside your strengths– the things you do very well.
Go through the list a third time and circle the advantages that you enjoy using. These are your “motivated” skills. You will be more productive when a job enables you to use these skills.
Make a list of all your transferable skills.
Transferable Skills
Working With People Skills – Communicating Skills – Leadership Skills
____ assisting ____ advising ____ administering
____ coaching ____ communicating ____ coaching
____ consulting ____ interpreting ____ conducting
____ cooperating ____ negotiating ____ controlling
____ counselling ____ persuading ____ coordinating
____ enforcing ____ promoting ____ deciding
____ helping ____ presenting ____ directing
____ instructing ____ summarizing ____ facilitating
____ serving ____ talking ____ influencing
____ teaching ____ translating ____ initiating (starting)
____ training ____ writing ____ inspiring
Information & Number Skills – Creative Skills
____ analyzing ____ arranging ____ managing
____ budgeting ____ cooking ____ motivating
____ calculating ____ creating ____ negotiating
____ checking ____ demonstrating ____ planning
____ evaluating ____ designing ____ recognizing
____ inspecting ____ developing ____ reinforcing
____ memorizing ____ devising ____ rewarding
____ ordering ____ generating ____ supervising
____ organizing ____ improvising
Manual & Mechanical Skills
____ researching ____ inventing ____ adjusting
____ reviewing ____ originating ____ constructing
____ scheduling ____ performing ____ installing
____ selecting ____ producing ____ operating
____ verifying ____ predicting ____ repairing
____ interviewing ____ prospecting ____ servicing
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