Name: __________________________________ Section: _________________________

SKILLS ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET

Transferrable skills generally are not associated with a particular job or tasks. Transferrable skills are usually
broader and related to the leadership, communication, critical thinking, analysis, and organization. These are
skills that can be transferred and utilized in a variety of different kinds of jobs and career paths. You can have
the same skill marked more than once in each column.
Would
Feel Enjoy /
Communication Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Write, edit, translate, interpret or critique words
Speak in public, debate, advocate, present or demonstrate an idea
Facilitate a meeting
Reading and following directions
Comparing or cross-checking two lists
Filling out forms
Writing reports, letters and memos correctly
Comfortably speaking to others, you do not know
Taking notes while someone speaks
Finding information
Using a map
Explaining things to other people
Know when to ask for help or more explanation
Counsel or adviser others
Listening to others

Would
Feel Enjoy /
Technical Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Be athletic or use physical coordination
Build or construct things or structures
Do skilled crafts or use hand coordination with tools
Operate vehicles, machines, or electronic equipment
Repair or set up machines or equipment
Installing things
Work with earth and nature
Gardening, landscaping and farming

Would
Feel Enjoy /
Management and Self-Management Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Administer, set goals and priorities, plan or make decisions
Initiate, assess needs, anticipate or create change
Manage people, delegate tasks, direct, oversee or motivate
Sell, negotiate, convince, promote or persuade
Being a patient with others
Keeping a cheerful attitude
Getting interested/excited about the task at hand
Knowing how to take directions
Offering to help when it’s needed
Following the rules
Helping motivates others to get the job done
Presenting a neat and professional image
Checking your own work
Using courtesy when dealing with others
Being eager to learn
Speaking up for yourself
Solving problems in a cooperative way

Number Skills Feel Enjoy / Would

like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Compute, calculate, compare or record numbers
Forecast, appraise or estimate numerical information
Doing arithmetic correctly
Using percentages and decimals
Estimating costs and/or time needed to complete a job
Creating and managing a budget.

Would
Feel Enjoy /
Creative/Artistic Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Perceive intuitively, sense, show insight or have foresight
Use artistic ability, photograph, decorate, paint or sculpt
Use creativity, visualize, imagine, brainstorm or design
Using musical ability, sing, compose or play instruments
Presenting artistic ideas
Visualizing shapes
Designing
Drawing, Illustrating, sketching

Would
Feel Enjoy /
People and Social Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Care, treat, heal, nurse or rehabilitate others
Counsel, empower, coach, guide or listen to individuals
Host, comfort, please, make welcome or serve customers
Plan social, recreational or other group events
Problem-solve, meditate or network with people
Teach, train, instruct, inform or explain to groups
Caring for children responsibly
Caring for the sick and elderly
Calming people down
Helping people to complete a task
Knowing hoe to get along with different people/personalities

Would
Feel Enjoy /
Critical Thinking and Investigative Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Analyze, use, logic problem solves, examine
Conceptualize, adapt, develop, hypothesize or discover
Evaluate, assess, test appraise, diagnose
Observe, reflect, study or notice
Research, investigative, read or interview
Synthesize, integrate, unify or conceptualize ideas

Would
Feel Enjoy /
Business Skills like to
Competent Favorites
Develop
Working with computers
Working with budgets
Account, budget, program or systematize financial data
Attend to detail, copy, inspect or transcribe
Setting up and closing out a cash register
Managing money and bills
Organizing, filing, updating, categorizing or arranging information
Writing business documents
Coordinating events
Fund-raising
Answer the following questions
1. What skills have you already acquired and feel competent doing?
2. What skills do you enjoy, even if you are not proficient at them?

3. What skills would you like to learn, acquire or develop further.