Résumés

THE SKILFUL ME

Often we think of skills as being complicated special preserves of the highly trained.

However, we all have certain skills which will be useful to employers.

These are the skills which you use every day but which you don't think about.

It will be very useful to you if you can identify the particular skills you have now, or have the potential to develop, and can give examples of how you have successfully used that skill.

Such information will help when we are writing résumés or when we are answering questions in job interviews.

Some of these words listed are ideal "active words" for you to use often when describing yourself in your résumé and in the whole job application process.

For each skill contained in these lists, state whether you:
- have that skill already (put a tick)
- don't have it yet but have the potential to develop it (put a ?)
- will never have that skill (put a X)

ALSO, think of appropriate examples of occasions where you have used that skill successfully.

PEOPLE SKILLS

guiding
listening to
negotiating with
instructing
supervising
understanding
persuading
speaking to
serving
helping
nursing
encouraging
leading
motivating
responding to
healing conflict with
making laugh
disciplining
aiding in emergencies
meeting with
organising
assigning work to
directing
evaluating
coaching
counselling
referring
being polite to

WORD SKILLS

coordinating
keeping confidential
processing
collating
keeping record of
organising
classifying
retrieving
copying
persuading
planning
typing
proof reading
editing
composing
teaching
communicating
writing
reading
imagining
adapting
analysing
researching
compiling
comparing

FIGURE SKILLS

counting
calculating
timing
recording
bookkeeping
compiling
comparing
problem solving
correcting
analysing
financial planning
graphing

SKILLS WITH THINGS

driving
operating
installing
lifting
making
repairing
adjusting
producing
imagining
changing
adapting
creating
classifying
using
improving
collecting
handling money
cooking
selling
growing

We all have developed some skills for dealing with:
- information (words or figures),
- people, or
- things
or we might have the potential to develop some of these skills in the future.

How do you prove your skills to an employer?

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