Skills Assessment

When you are considering or planning another career it is vital to spend some time exploring who you are and the skills you have developed during your life so far. This will involve reflecting on your achievements both inside and outside the workplace. This process involves recognising and assessing the general value of your experience in terms of other careers and job roles that are of interest to you. We at PRRT realise that for some this can seem a daunting task.

The following exercises will help you to identify some of the skills you have developed. We have listed skills in the following categories.

• People skills
• Communication skills
• Management skills
• Information skills
• Creative skills
• Practical skills
• Specialist skills

Take some time to read these lists and identify those, which describe you. It is useful to consider the areas in which you have developed a range of transferable skills. Transferable skills describe skills, which can be applied in other areas. Consider experience from all areas of your working and personal life. Be honest! Do not underestimate or undervalue. Remember this is your working document and will prove very useful in assisting the decision making process.