Job search/Transferable skills

Which of these Skills Describe You?

Communication Skills

 * Working effectively with people of different ages, gender, race, religion or political persuasion
 * Proficiency with / learning different languages
 * Identifying the strengths of team members
 * Recognizing own strengths & limitations
 * Clarifying team roles & performing agreed tasks
 * Demonstrating leadership as appropriate
 * Coaching, mentoring & motivating others
 * Giving & receiving constructive feedback
 * Resolving differences of opinion
 * Collaborating & contributing to team results

Problem Solving Skills

 * Analyzing facts & testing assumptions
 * Defining the problem & contributing factors
 * Developing creative, innovative &/or practical solutions
 * Showing initiative in identifying & solving problems
 * Solving problems independently & in teams
 * Applying a range of strategies to problem solving
 * Designing contingencies
 * Developing & evaluating a range of options
 * Making realistic decisions & action plans
 * Using mathematics including budgeting & financial management to solve problems
 * Resolving customer concerns in relation to complex issues
 * Implementing & monitoring solutions
 * Evaluating processes & outcomes

Planning and Organizational Skills

 * Establishing clear & attainable project goals & deliverables Defining specifications & quality standards
 * Planning the use of resources including time,
 * people, finances & materials
 * Risk management & contingency planning
 * Managing time & priorities — setting milestones
 * Managing tasks - delegating, coordinating, monitoring
 * Managing people - training, developing, motivating, giving feedback, supervising
 * Collecting, analyzing & organizing information
 * Being resourceful, taking initiative & making decisions
 * Establishing evaluation criteria & participating in continuous improvement
 * Reporting on progress & outcomes
 * Understanding (basic) business systems, software, tools & their relationships

Information Technology Skills

 * Having a range of basic IT skills (e.g., Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
 * Having a range of specialized IT skills (i.e., analysis, web design, social media, marketing, procurement, financial, supply chain, HR, etc.)
 * Applying IT as a management tool
 * Using IT to organize data
 * Being willing to learn new IT skills
 * Having the occupational health and safety knowledge to apply technology
 * Having the appropriate physical capacity

Initiative and Enterprise Skills

 * Identifying opportunities not obvious to others
 * Assessing the competitive advantage of ideas
 * Identifying customer or client requirements
 * Developing strategic goals
 * Being creative, initiating ideas & innovative solutions
 * Determining the commercial viability of ideas
 * Translating ideas into action
 * Demonstrating political, commercial, environmental, cultural awareness, sensitivities, etc.
 * Liaising with stakeholders & sponsors (Note: this might also be in Communication Skills)
 * Using a range of business communication methods
 * Marketing & selling a product or service

Learning Skills

 * Managing own learning
 * Sharing knowledge & experience in the workplace
 * Contributing to the learning community at the workplace
 * Using a range of mediums to learn — mentoring, peer support, networking, information technology (IT), course
 * Applying learning to 'technical' issues (e.g. learning about products & 'people' issues (e.g. interpersonal and cultural aspects of work)
 * Having enthusiasm for ongoing learning
 * Being willing to learn in any setting — on & off the job
 * Being open to new ideas & techniques
 * Being prepared to invest time & effort in learning new skills
 * Acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate change

Self Management Skills

 * Having a personal vision & goals
 * Evaluating & monitoring own performance
 * Having knowledge & confidence in own ideas & vision
 * Articulating own ideas & vision
 * Taking responsibility
 * Working ethically
 * Working under pressure
 * Demonstrating resilience

Teamwork Skills

 * Listening, understanding and speaking clearly
 * Writing appropriately for different audiences
 * Persuading & negotiating effectively
 * Demonstrating empathy, assertiveness & tact
 * Understanding the needs of customers/clients
 * Establishing relationships & using networks
 * Sharing information & proposing ideas
 * Fluency in English & other languages
 * Logically summarizing information or data
 * Chairing/running a meeting