This document provides guidance on identifying skills for a job search. It discusses two types of skills - job-related skills learned through work or training, and transferable skills gained from life experiences. Examples of transferable skills include dependability, teamwork, stress management, and initiative. The document instructs job seekers to write down their top 3 skills and develop examples to prove they have each skill to discuss in interviews. Overall, the document outlines how identifying both technical and soft skills can help job seekers market themselves effectively for their job search.

1. Job Seeker’s Toolkit
Identifying Your Skills

2. Do you know your skills or
strengths?
In order to be successful in your job
search, you need to know your skills.

3. Find the arrow in the logo
What is hiding inside of you?

4. Two Types of Skills
 Job-Related Skills
 Transferrable Skills

5. Job-Related Skills
Specific job skills that you learned
through training and/or work
experience.

6. Transferable skills
 Often more important than job-related
skills
 Can be gained from everyday living
 Employers think if you are able to use
the skill in one situation, you should be
able to use it in another job even if it
appears unrelated.

7. Write down what you consider to
be your top 3 skills or strengths

8.  Dependable  Delivers quality work
 Friendly  Energetic, hard worker
 Work well with others  Trustworthy
 Work well under stress  Positive attitude
 Good tempered  Good self-esteem
 Learns quickly  Creative and takes
 Nice appearance initiative
 Work without supervision  Uses good judgement
 Neat work habits  Sense of humor
 Willing to do extra  Good problem solver
 Honest  Very productive

9. Now what?
 You need to develop your skills into a
statement you can make at an
interview.
 Come up with an example of each skill
to prove that you have that skill.

10. “I can meet deadlines.”
 Example – “While in school, I never
missed a due date on an assignment.”

11. “I am a good explainer”
 Example – “Whenever other students
had trouble understanding a problem in
math, they came to me for an
explanation.”

12. “I am trustworthy”
 Example – “My neighbor asked me to
water their plants while they were on
vacation. They gave me a key to their
home and I only used it to get the job
done and leave.”

13. End of – Identifying Your Skills