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Why are your SKILLS so important?

The reality is that with over 2 million college graduates each year, there are plenty of people looking for the same opportunities you are. And don’t forget those already in the workplace looking for new opportunities!

You have to be able to answer these questions for your employer:

  • What makes you the right person for the job?
  • What do you bring to the company that the other 20, 40, or 100 people who graduated with your same degree don’t have?

Before you begin to discern your skills you have to ask yourself this:

Am I looking for:

WORK?

a JOB?

or 

a CAREER

You’re expected to:

  • be able to solve problems
  • organize your time
  • be able to teach someone else a process
  • communicate with others inside and outside the company
  • work on a team
  • bring a good work ethic and an attitude that says you want to be there and you want to do this job.

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Why are your SKILLS so important?

The reality is that with over 2 million college graduates each year, there are plenty of people looking for the same opportunities you are. And don’t forget those already in the workplace looking for new opportunities!

You have to be able to answer these questions for your employer:

  • What makes you the right person for the job?
  • What do you bring to the company that the other 20, 40, or 100 people who graduated with your same degree don’t have?

You’re expected to:

  • be able to solve problems
  • organize your time
  • be able to teach someone else a process
  • communicate with others inside and outside the company
  • work on a team
  • bring a good work ethic and an attitude that says you want to be there and you want to do this job.

Before you begin to discern your skills you have to ask yourself this:

Am I looking for:

WORK?

a JOB?

or 

a CAREER

Know the Types of Skills

Everything you have been doing in school and in life to date has been preparing you to enter the workplace. Even those classes that you didn’t like, or the activities you thought were boring gave you INFORMATION and SKILLS you can use on the job. Those skills are classified three ways…

Technical Skills

specific tasks you can perform to do a job, like calibrating an engine, calculating interest, or creating a graphic. Technical skills or “hard skills” are physical things you can do or special knowledge you have to do a task or solve a problem. You can be learning new technical skills all the time, whether you’re taking a class, working on the job, or hanging out with friends. As you gain technical skills, you also learn to use tools and technology to do the job.

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  • TOOLS– Machines, equipment, and tools you may use on the job.
  • TECHNOLOGY– software and information technology used to perform a task or do a job.

Think about all the tools and technology you use every day, whether it’s a spreadsheet or word processing program, posting a YouTube™ video, or posting to a blog.

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Soft skills

your people skills, such as communicating and negotiating, managing your time or multi-tasking. These are all marketable workplace skills that can help you on a job or as you go for more advanced training and education. Soft skills are character traits that show how well you interact with other people. They are known as workplace skills or people skills. Soft skills are often harder to identify than technical skills, and judging how well someone can do the skill varies based on the person measuring performance.

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Core Soft Skill List used to achieve Goals:

  • Coordination—Adjusting actions in relation to other’s actions.
  • Instructing—Teaching other how to do something.
  • Negotiation—Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Persuasion—Persuading others to change their mind or behavior.
  • Service Orientation—Actively looking for ways to help people
  • Social Perceptiveness—Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Foundation Soft Skills LIST used for communicating & learning:

  • Active Learning — Comprehend the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

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Transferable Skills

Transferable skills are skills that you can take from one area or job and use in another. If you have good management skills, you can become a manager in a bank or a manager in a retail shop. You use many of the same skills, just in a different setting. You can take the skill of being good with people and use it in health care, social services, retail, or other jobs. Transferable skills can come from:

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  • different jobs
  • activities you do on your own personal time
  • volunteering and community service
  • hobbies
  • memberships
  • jobs that you hold that don’t seem to relate to your career.

REMEMBER – the common skills you have in one job may be a rare talent or a high value skill that sets you apart in another position.

 Transferable skills can be hard or soft skills and you don’t have to get them on the job or from your education—they come from life too!!

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A job can be work that brings in money, but it can also be a position that helps you build your career. A career is a series of related jobs, and the skills you learn on one job can help you move to jobs requiring more experience and advanced skills, where you can be earning more money and benefits. To get the job you really want, you have to have the right skills, training, or education, and the experience required for the job. Your career portfolio is a tool you will use to help get a job and document your career.

Know the Types of Skills

Everything you have been doing in school and in life to date has been preparing you to enter the workplace. Even those classes that you didn’t like, or the activities you thought were boring gave you INFORMATION and SKILLS you can use on the job. Those skills are classified three ways…

Technical Skills

specific tasks you can perform to do a job, like calibrating an engine, calculating interest, or creating a graphic. Technical skills or “hard skills” are physical things you can do or special knowledge you have to do a task or solve a problem. You can be learning new technical skills all the time, whether you’re taking a class, working on the job, or hanging out with friends. As you gain technical skills, you also learn to use tools and technology to do the job.

show more...

  • TOOLS– Machines, equipment, and tools you may use on the job.
  • TECHNOLOGY– software and information technology used to perform a task or do a job.

Think about all the tools and technology you use every day, whether it’s a spreadsheet or word processing program, posting a YouTube™ video, or posting to a blog.

show less...

Soft skills

your people skills, such as communicating and negotiating, managing your time or multi-tasking. These are all marketable workplace skills that can help you on a job or as you go for more advanced training and education. Soft skills are character traits that show how well you interact with other people. They are known as workplace skills or people skills. Soft skills are often harder to identify than technical skills, and judging how well someone can do the skill varies based on the person measuring performance.

show more...

Core Soft Skill List used to achieve Goals: 

  • Coordination—Adjusting actions in relation to other’s actions.
  • Instructing—Teaching other how to do something.
  • Negotiation—Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
  • Persuasion—Persuading others to change their mind or behavior.
  • Service Orientation—Actively looking for ways to help people
  • Social Perceptiveness—Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

 Foundation Soft Skills LIST used for communicating & learning:

  • Active Learning — Comprehend the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

    show less...

Transferable Skills

Transferable skills are skills that you can take from one area or job and use in another. If you have good management skills, you can become a manager in a bank or a manager in a retail shop. You use many of the same skills, just in a different setting. You can take the skill of being good with people and use it in health care, social services, retail, or other jobs. Transferable skills can come from:

show more...

  • different jobs
  • activities you do on your own personal time
  • volunteering and community service
  • hobbies
  • memberships
  • jobs that you hold that don’t seem to relate to your career.

REMEMBER – the common skills you have in one job may be a rare talent or a high value skill that sets you apart in another position.

 Transferable skills can be hard or soft skills and you don’t have to get them on the job or from your education—they come from life too!!

show less...

A job can be work that brings in money, but it can also be a position that helps you build your career. A career is a series of related jobs, and the skills you learn on one job can help you move to jobs requiring more experience and advanced skills, where you can be earning more money and benefits. To get the job you really want, you have to have the right skills, training, or education, and the experience required for the job. Your career portfolio is a tool you will use to help get a job and document your career.

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