Freshman Year Self Assessment
There are two general methods you may use to identify and analyze your personal skills: (a) recognition of skills formal checklist; (b) recall key life experiences, and extraction of skills from these experiences. We shall see in the suggested table of Skills X Achievements, your results from these two exercises can be "skillfully" integrated.
EXERCISE: Skills Identification Checklist
(a) Look through the list of functional (liberal) skills on the following pages. Check each one that you feel you have demonstrated to your own satisfaction;
(b) Check only those skills that you enjoy using;
(c) It is not necessary that your excel in a particular skill area in order to check it. You qualify for the skill if you believe that you are somewhat better than people of your age and experience.
(d) Rank these skills in two ways, 1-according to how much you enjoy them, 2-according to how prominent the strength is compared to others on your list (these two sets of rankings should correlate rather closely).
Functional Skills
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copy writing for sales
creative writing, prose, poetry, expository writing, essays, reports,
memo writing, writing for a popular audience. (journalism)
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representing an employer to the public
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for printed media, newspapers, etc. for public displays, as in posters
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pictures of things, people, diagrams, charts, other symbols
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technical apparatus or equipment items of information into a coherent
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of a scientific nature, of a medical nature, related to motion, transportation
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physical objects, to meet standards
people, to determine criteria, or detect information
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evaluating programs or services, judging the value of property, evaluating performance of individuals
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newspaper, magazine pieces, book manuscripts, other manuscripts
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a department of people, programs, a specific activity, such as a test
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making decisions about the use of money, making decisions involving the physical safety of others, making decisions about alternative courses of action
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sorting information into categories, deciding about placement of people into programs
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Extracting information from library, obtaining information directly from people, obtaining information from physical data
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quantitative data, statistical data, physical or scientific data,
human/social situations
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technical language into popular form,
revising articles or manuscripts
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Organizing time efficiently so that many tasks are completed in finite time period, arranging an event so that it occurs are precisely the right moment
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numerous events involving different people, great quantities of information, activities in different physical locations events in time sequence
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assessing the financial status of an organization
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attempting to acquire the services of people for an organization
- Interviewing
evaluating applicants to an organization
obtaining information from others
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the orderly flow of electronic data, introducing an individual to the procedures of an organization, identifying the human interactions taking place in a group, channeling information through a system
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seeking information which individuals may attempt to keep secret,
seeking the underlying causes for a problem
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answering inquiries by mail initiating letters with others, soliciting business by direct mail
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treating physical ailments of humans, animals
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exercising financial control, crowd behavior, behavior of children environmental control operations
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protecting people from physical harm,
protecting property from people, building protective devices or equipment, preventing destructive natural phenomena
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physical phenomena with great accuracy, behavior of human beings, social/historical changes
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money or services from people who owe items from widely scattered sources many items in a single class (e.g. stamps)
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other languages, obscure phrases or passages English, meaning associated with statistical data
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administering written tests, making a financial assessment, looking for physical/medical symptoms
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obtaining evidence in legal situations, asking creative questions in fluid situations
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showing publicly, or demonstrating
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products to people personally, marketing products effectively, making them available to possible customers.
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orderly keeping of numerical data records, keeping log of sequential information, creating and maintaining files, clear and accurate financial records, orderly record of services rendered
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speaking publicly to an audience, speaking individually to many people, speaking on electronic media (radio, TV), speaking with clear diction
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providing a service to an individual, serving a product (e.g. food) to individuals
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giving financial counsel, advice, advice in an educational system
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obtaining accurate scientific measurements
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mapping geographical, physical boundaries and space, putting sequences of events into graphic form
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forecasting physical phenomena, forecasting psychological/social events, forecasting the outcomes of contests, forecasting economic data
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artistically (visual arts, performing arts) new ideas for an organization, new ways of solving mechanical problems, inventing new apparatus, equipment
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mechanical devices, equipment furniture, doors, walls, etc.
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financial contracts, between individuals or groups in conflict
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Attaining objectives through committee processes, creating and implementing committee structures
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physical interiors of rooms, exteriors of buildings, plans involving processing of information
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using mechanical printing equipment, printing letters carefully by hand
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selling ideas to others personally, selling ideas with words, selling products to individual households, selling govt. policies to the public
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helping people with personal/emotional concerns
helping people with life development concerns; career, finances, etc.
helping people with educational plans, helping people with family matters
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obtaining decisions from reluctant dragons, giving bad news to others who are unwilling to disclose it, resolving personal conflicts with others
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generating support for one's ideas within an organization, generating financial support form another agency or organization, attempting to influence policy within an organization or company
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justifying one's actions to others, making obscure ideas clear to others
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anticipating future needs of a company or organization, scheduling a sequence of events, arranging an itinerary, for a trip
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from written sources, documents, from unwilling individuals
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scientific equipment or specimens, written materials for a presentation
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through written media, on a personal basis, one-to-one, arranging financial backing
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mechanical apparatus, physical objects, furniture, etc., involving house construction or similar
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gathering numerical, statistical data, accumulating facts in a given topic area
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arranging for a demonstration of some physical apparatus, getting people and things ready for a show, an exhibit, or such
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re-assessing the effects of a program, re-assessing the performance of an individual, evaluating a play, an exhibit, or such
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assessing a program to determine, its success in meeting its objectives,
judging the performance of an individual
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performing mathematical computations , assessing the risks of an
activity that is contemplated
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expressing the words of one language in the words of another, reducing sophisticated language to simpler terms
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judging the likely costs of an operation, projecting possibilities of future income, judging physical space accurately
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information to the public, materials, equipment, medicines, etc.
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ideas in artistic form, pictures for public display, products in store windows, equipment, mechanical devices
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finding people who are missing, detecting missing information, identifying sources of help for others
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social functions, events, meetings between specific people
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facilitating the positive interaction of members of a group, specific facilitation involving therapy
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numerical, quantitative data, scientific data, using instruments, using audio or video recorders
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scientific equipment, mechanical devices, vehicles, etc., electronic data equipment , computers, etc.
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from customers of retail stores, from stockholders of corporations, from citizens to government agencies, from parents of school or college students
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in the school or college classrooms, individuals to perform certain tasks (training), tutoring individuals in certain subjects
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helping people to resume use of physical limbs, working with patients through non-physical media, such as art, music, etc.
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setting up scientific equipment, obtaining results from controlled experiments
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directly overseeing the work of others in a white-collar setting, supervising laborers physical workers, overseeing a physical plant, building set of apartments etc.
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keeping a file of information up-to-date, completing historical record of a person, acquiring new information on an old topic
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for government funding, for revising in-house operations
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outlining the costs of a project, assuring that money will not be spent that exceeds available funds using money efficiently, economical
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for scientific phenomena, for behavioral phenomena, for economic phenomena
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business/commercial ideas
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