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Your skills are critical strengths to employers. They represent to an employer:
- What you can do for them
- What skills you already have to offer
- What skills do you want to use and improve on in your work?
Most people have never taken the time or initiative to evaluate their skills. Knowing your skills and how you can use them to contribute to your career development and eventually to the needs of your prospective employers, is essential to marketing yourself successfully in a resume and an interview.
An important bonus is that if you know what skills you want to learn or improve on in your work, this will help you choose the positions that will give you that opportunity to learn. This in turn will increase your options for the future.
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| Work-content or Professional/Technical |
- Developed through on the job training or in formal courses.
- Specific skills required to perform a particular occupation.
- Examples: theatrical production skills, market research skills, psychological assessment
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| Transferable |
- Natural-born talent and/or developed through training or schooling.
- Versatile skills that are transferable between occupations.
- Examples: communication, analytical thinking, research skills
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| Self Management. |
- Based in temperament and refined in early years at home or at school.
- Skills that allow you to manage the environment and the people in it.
- Examples: dependability, enthusiasm, initiative, organization
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