To make this work, you need to do all of the skill assessment exercises!
As I have already told you, these exercises will seem redundant. But each one has a purpose and each one will contribute to your knowledge and understanding of yourself, each in a slightly different way. You need to know as much as you can about yourself so that you can effectively present that information on your resume, and in an interview, and when you sit down to engage in salary negotiations. So make certain you work your way through each of the exercises.
1. Motivated Skills Inventory. In this exercise, you are going to read through a list of skills and rate each one on two scales: how much skill do you have and how motivated are you to use that skill.
After reviewing your ratings for all of the skills listed, we are going to look at them in rank order and focus on the ones you gave the highest ratings.
2. Tying Skills to Accomplishments. For each of your motivated skills identified above, you are going to describe some activity, event or experience where you actually used or demonstrated that skill.
3. Finding Skills in Your Accomplishments. To make certain that you have identified all of your motivated skills, you are going to write a brief description of something you accomplished or succeeded at - something that made you proud or that you felt good about - and look to see what skills were necessary to make that happen.
4. Look at the notes (skills) you or your friend jotted down from your accomplishment narrative and turn them into skill statements, just like you did in the previous exercises.
5. The final and most important step in finding your skills in you accomplishments will be to categorize and prioritize your skills into an actual job description. This will help you identify jobs that fit your skills! Make a list of the jobs that could use these skills. Remember that it is impossible to draw conclusions about which jobs correspond until you categorize and prioritize your skills! Here is an example of an Accomplishment Narrative with the skill statements categorized and prioritized.
Next: Motivated Skills Inventory
and then: Tying Skills to Accomplishments
and then after that: Finding Skills in Your Accomplishments
and then: Tying Skills to Accomplishments
and then after that: Finding Skills in Your Accomplishments