Skills

You will have developed many skills through your studies, but you will also have developed others while taking part in extracurricular activities such as sports and societies or through work or volunteering experience.

 

To identify a job that you’ll love and perform well in, it can be helpful to identify your skills. There may be skills that are particularly important to you or that you find most fulfilling to use. You may want to look for potential work that makes the most of these.

 

Similarly it can be worth assessing which skills areas you perform less well in or find less enjoyable to use. You may then want to look for jobs where you can avoid or minimise using your weaker skills!

 

To help you identify some of the skills you use in everyday life, click on the interactive exercise below - a day in the life of a student. This should take you 3 - 5 minutes. Which transferable skills can you spot?

Once you have tried this task, think about the skills you have already developed. There may be more than you think!

 

Transferable Skills

 

The skills assessment exercise below will help you to reflect on what you're good at as well as recognise areas that you might need or want to develop. Click on the graphic and download the exercise into your portfolio.

Keeping a record of your skills development and examples to demonstrate your areas of strength will help prepare you for articulating your abilities and achievements in preparation for making applications and attending interviews.