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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.
Time
required to complete...
Approximately 30
minutes.
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.
You must be viewing this checklist while connected to the
Internet in order for the hyperlinks below to function properly!
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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!
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Required form...
You must be viewing this checklist while connected to the
Internet in order for the hyperlinks below to function properly!
