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Core Skills Exercise - alis
Knowing which of the 9 core skills you are best at will help you plan a career you'll enjoy and excel in.
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Core Skills Exercise
Step 1 of 3

Adaptability

Your ability to achieve or adjust goals and behaviours when expected or unexpected change occurs, by planning, staying focused, persisting, and overcoming setbacks. For example, we use this skill to change work plans to meet new deadlines, learn how to work with new tools and improve our skills through feedback.

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Creativity and Innovation
Your ability to imagine, develop, express, encourage, and apply ideas in ways that are novel, unexpected, or challenge existing methods and norms. For example, we use this skill to discover better ways of doing things, develop new products, and deliver services in a new way.

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Problem solving
Your ability to identify, analyze, propose solutions, and make decisions. Problem solving helps you to address issues, monitor success, and learn from the experience. For example, we use this skill to make hiring decisions, select courses of action and troubleshoot technical failures.

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Collaboration
Your ability to contribute and support others to achieve a common goal. For example, at work we use this skill to provide meaningful support to team members while completing a project.

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Digital
Your ability to use digital technology and tools to find, manage, apply, create and share information and content. For example, we use this skill to create spreadsheets, safely use social media, and securely make online purchases.

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Reading
Your ability to find, understand, and use information presented through words, symbols, and images. For example, we use this skill to locate information on forms and drawings, and to read items such as emails, reports, news articles, blog posts and instructions.

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Communication
Your ability to receive, understand, consider, and share information and ideas through speaking, listening, and interacting with others. For example, we use this skill to listen to instructions, serve customers and discuss ideas.

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Numeracy
Your ability to find, understand, use, and report mathematical information presented through words, numbers, symbols, and graphics. For example, we use this skill to perform calculations, manage budgets, analyze and model data and make estimations.

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Writing
Your ability to share information using written words, symbols, and images. For example, we use this skill to fill out forms and applications, and write emails, reports and social media posts.

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This activity will take you approximately 5 minutes.

Core Skills Quick Rating

Identifying your top core skills is an important part of career planning. Core skills are the 9 basic skills you need for success. Core skills are also called transferable skills because they are skills you will need to bring to every job.

Knowing which of the 9 core skills you are best at will help you plan a career you'll enjoy and excel in. 

Once you’ve rated your core skills and completed the core skills quiz, you’ll see a chart showing both results.

Quickly rate your 9 core skills, You can also skip directly to the quiz

Adaptability
Creativity and Innovation
Problem solving
Collaboration
Digital
Reading
Communication
Numeracy
Writing

This personal information is being collected and used pursuant to section 33(c) and section 39(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This information is being collected and retained on the system to facilitate your personal career planning process and to make it available for your ongoing use. You may choose to share this information with a Career Advisor to support the provision of career planning services. Please contact alis at alis.info@gov.ab.ca or 780-422-1794 if you have any questions regarding the collection or use of the information you submit.