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INTERNET CAREER CONNECTION
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Step 1b Checklist: Define your
skills...
Career Selection and Planning
Guide
Internet Career Connection
Skills, both developed and inherited, are the tools with which you can achieve success in your career.
The purpose of this step is to help you define your work-related skills - those activities that you can currently best perform in a work situation (or best perform with additional training. To help you complete this step, you will review two lists of work-related skills, and then using these lists as clues you will define your work-related skills.
Required form...
To complete this step, please use your partially completed copy of Form 1 - the same form that you used to record your interests in Step 1a.
Directions...
Print a copy of this checklist to record your progress as you complete this step.
On your printed copy, check off each step as it is completed.
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[ ] Identify your skills using the O*NET Online Skills Search website.
When instructed to do so below, please visit the O*NET Online Skills Search website and note the list of 35 skills associated with the following six groups:
Basic skills
Complex problem solving skills
Resource management skills
Social skills
Systems skills
Technical skills
Review the list of skills and identify those skills that are currently your strongest skills (or with additional training you would like to be your strongest skills). List your selected skills below. Be selective, only select your strongest skills!
After reading the above, click this link O*NET Online Skills Search to review the O*NET Skills list.
My strongest O*NET skills are:
When you have completed this step, move on to the step below.
In addition to helping you identify your skills, this website
will also help you identify occupations related to your
strongest skills. While you may view this data if you
are interested, please
do not spend any serious time with this feature as we will
identify careers related to your
personality style later in this program.
[ ] Identify your skills using the iSeek Skills website.
When instructed to do so below, please visit the iSeek website and note the list of 98 skills associated with the following ten groups:
Basic skills
Communication skills
Hearing and vision skills
Interpersonal skills
Judgment skills
Management skills
Movement skills
Numerical skills
Reasoning skills
Technical skills
Review the list of skills and identify those skills that are currently your strongest skills (or with additional training you would like to be your strongest skills). List your selected skills below. Be selective, only select your strongest skills!
After reading the above, click this link iSeek Skills Assessment to review the iSeek Skills list.
My strongest iSeek skills are:
When you have completed this step, move on to the step below.
In addition to helping you identify your skills, this website
will also help you identify occupations related to your
strongest skills. While you may view this data if you
are interested, please
do not spend any serious time with this feature as we will
identify careers related to your
personality style later in this program.
[ ] Define your work-related skills.
Using the two lists of skills above (O*NET Online Skills and iSeek Skills), describe your work-related skills on your partially completed copy of Form 1 - the same form you used to record your interests in Step 1a. Review the following suggestions before you attempt to define your skills:
Do not list personal skills, only skills that you would be willing to do in a work situation.
List only your strongest skills.
List anywhere from 1 to 5 skills.
Make sure each skill is different from the others.
Do not list job titles, just skills.
Here's an example showing how the skills section could be completed.
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Do not let the above skill lists make decisions for you! While such lists are helpful tools, they do not list all the skills that do exist. Therefore, in the final analysis, what you believe are your skills should be the deciding factor when listing your skills. |
[ ] Decide what to do next.
If you have completed all the personal assessment areas that you wish, including the interest assessment, then you may move on to Step 2: Identify possible career options. However, if you would like to assess other areas of your personality style, click on the item below that you would like to next assess and follow the directions that will appear.