To obtain a career and to keep a job today, you need to understand the importance of acquiring marketable skills. Below is a list of skills that employers commonly seek in new employees. Review the list and check those skills you feel you possess.
Resources Management | |
| Time | Selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules. |
| Money |
Uses or prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives |
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Materials & Facilities |
Acquires, stores allocates, and uses materials or space efficiently |
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Human Resources |
Assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback |
Interpersonal: Works with others | |
| Team |
Participates as member of a team, contributes to group effort |
| Training |
Teaches others new skills |
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Serves Clients/Customers |
Works to satisfy customers expectations |
| Leadership |
Communicates ideas to justify position, persuades and convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies |
| Negotiates |
Works toward agreements involving exchanges of resources, resolves divergent interests |
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Works with Diversity |
Works will with men and women from diverse backgrounds
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Information: Acquires and uses information | |
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Acquires and evaluates information | |
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Organizes and maintains information | |
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Interprets and communicates information | |
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Uses computers to process information
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Technology: Works with a variety of technologies | |
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Applies Technology to Task |
Understands overall intent and proper procedures for setup and operation of equipment |
Applications |
Understand and can use common computer applications |
Basic Skills | |
| Reading |
Locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs and schedules |
| Writing |
Communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports and graphs |
| Math |
Performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques |
| Listening |
Receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues |
| Speaking |
Organizes ideas and communicates orally
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Thinking Skills | |
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Creative Thinking |
Generates new ideas |
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Decision Making |
Specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks and evaluates and chooses best alternative |
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Problem Solving |
Recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action |
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Knowing How to Learn |
Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills |
| Reasoning |
Discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem
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Personal Qualities | |
| Responsibility |
Exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment |
| Self–Esteem |
Believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self |
| Sociability |
Demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy and politeness in group settings |
| Self–Management |
Assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress. |
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Intergrity/Honesty |
Chooses ethical courses of action |
Additional Skills
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Categories Where You Have The Most Skills
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Categories Where You Have The Least Skills
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Skills You Most Like To Use
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