What are you good at?
What are you like?
The University of East Anglia's Careers website states knowing your skills and personal qualities is the basis of good career choice, planning and job application techniques.
What are skills and personal qualities? How can someone demonstrate these?
skill n.
1. special ability in a sport, computing, etc., esp. ability acquired by training.
2. something, esp. a trade or technique, requiring special training or manual proficiency.
[C12: ‹ Old Norse skil distinction]
quality n., pl. -ties
1. a distinguishing characteristic or attribute.
2. the basic character or nature of something or someone.
3. a feature of personality.
4. degree or standard of excellence, esp. a high standard.
[C13: ‹ Old French qualité, ‹ Latin quālitās state, ‹ quālis of what sort]
UEA Information and Advice
The UEA's Skills page highlights a number of skills which you might be able to highlight in a letter, CV or at an interview.
Which of them do you have?
How can you use the skills as a starting point to highlight some of the things that you're particularly good at?
The UEA's Personal Qualities page, again, offers a list of qualities that you might be able to demonstrate possession of.
Which of them do you have?
Careersbox's Skills Explorer
'Explore' YOUR skills by using the easy slider system on the Skills Explorer website.
MATCH your skills to a whole world of work and training opportunities.
Enjoy the journey, and don't forget to request your SKILLS REPORT!
NEXT STEP's Skills Health Check
There is a new interactive section on the NEXT STEP website that allows users to take part in a online questionnaire which assesses personal skills.
From the website, it says If you're not sure what might be the right job for you, why not give your skills a health check? This activity takes you through a range of questions to give an objective assessment of your skills, wider competencies, strengths and areas for development. Why not have a go?
KUDOS's Interactive Career-matching Program
Why not try out the KUDOS program via the helpyouchoose.org website to see how your skills, qualities, qualifications and interests might match with specific careers?
What will it reveal?
A career that your really never thought of?
Or, will it consolidate your future career plans?
Advice from helpyouchoose.org
Why not use some of the examples below to consider your skills and personal qualities? Remember these can be used in a letter, on an application form, in a CV and at an interview.
