Assessment Tools

Skills assessment

Skills are developed through paid and unpaid work experiences, volunteerism, hobbies, classroom experiences, and through everyday living.  The following is only a partial sample of skills that by no means exhausts your own skills repertoire.  You may use this list to initiate your skills assessment.  Your goals should be to take an accurate an inventory of your skills, to prioritize your skills according to level of interest, and then to assess your proficiencies.

To begin, follow these steps:

1. Print out a copy of this list.

2. Put a checkmark by those skills you have used in the past.

3. Review your checked skills and circle those that interest you the most.

4. Rate the circled skills according to your level of proficiency.