You and the job you want

Produce a work related summary of your skills and attributes

Let’s refine this a little more and start to produce a clearer summary of the key skills and personal attributes you already have. The list you compiled in Activity 1 will have revealed some of your strengths and skills that you use often. Transfer them onto this list to make a summary.

Activity 3: Summarise your skills you identified in the previous activity and group them in three categories as shown in the example below. Download the template (doc 20kb)

My Skills and Attributes Summary - Sample

Technical Skills and
Knowledge

Transferable Work Skills

Personal Characteristics

Specific abilities that I have to perform a job role and discipline expertise gained through study

Eg
*mathematical skills
*experience in statistical packages
*knowledge of modelling techniques
*IT skills

These skills will help me adapt to work places and will be strengths that I bring to all my job roles

Eg
*analytical and problem solving skills
*effective communicator
*able to work both independently and as part of a team

These are some of the characteristics that I have that enable me to adapt to a work role

Eg
*good imagination
*confident to show initiative
*flexible
*not easily flustered

Building up your portfolio

Activities:

Sample documents:

Cover letter sample (pdf 15kb)
Resume sample (pdf 31kb)