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How to Analyze Your Skills and Job Options
Choosing your options is never going to be that easy; what you need
is to collate the things you are good at with the things you enjoy doing
and then see where that leads you. Analyze your skills first, think
about what you want to use, then choose your job options. Think about
your life, and your future, and like a tree, see where the branches lead
to from what you have done, and what you still want to do with your
life.
- Analyze your skills by listing your top ten achievements or
career events that you are most proud of. You should do this by
looking at your achievements, which are your richest source of
information providing concrete and tangible evidence of what you
have done so far. Use an active verb at the beginning of the phrase,
and you’ll hear how much more powerful it sounds.
- Ask yourself exactly what you did (try: where did I
start?) Then think about what happened next (or perhaps - what did I
say?).
- Consider what skills you used when you did the thing you
achieved (how did I do that? What did I need to do it?) You'll end
up with very clear statements of your real capabilities.
- List all of your skills so you can rate them for
transferability; most of your skills will transfer to another job
quite easily. Think not just "how good am I?" but ask "how much do I
enjoy this?" The skills that score most highly on both counts are
your most transferable skills and you will be able to use them in
many different settings. Write them down (score them out of 10 then
add up); the highest skills analysis scores are the ones you can use
in your self-marketing statements to best effect.
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