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Use this form to write down as many of your own core skills as you can. List any skill that you are able to perform as well as most people. You don’t have to be an expert at something to add it to the list.
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How to List Your Skills, Abilities, and Accomplishments
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Identify Your Work-Specific Skills
Every job requires certain work-specific skills. The better you know and can describe your skills, the better your chances of landing the job you want.
Know Your Core Skills and How to Sell Them
Employers look for a wide range of skills. Some skills relate to specific types of work. Others are core skills that you need for every job. If you know your core skills, you can use them to impress potential employers. This will help you land the job you want.
Identify Your Core Skills
Use this form to write down as many of your own core skills as you can. List any skill that you are able to perform as well as most people. You don’t have to be an expert at something to add it to the list.
Skills Quiz
Your skills are the things you've learned to do well arising from talent, training, or practice. They are an important part of who you are. According to the experts, the average person has up to 700 skills ready to be used at any time!
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Abilities Exercise
What are you good at? See how many skills and talents you have by rating these activities. Then discover the careers that best suit what you can do.
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Understand Your Abilities
Learn how the 9 types of abilities are defined, where they come from, and how you can use them to spot occupations that might be a good fit for you.
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Identify Your Experiences
Choose experiences where you did something and were proud of the result. It doesn't matter what anyone else thought about the experience or even if anyone else knew about it. The important thing is that you did it and it made you feel proud.
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Recognize Your Accomplishments
Your accomplishments are what you achieve when you use your skills. Employers will be even more impressed by your skills if you describe the positive results you have achieved.
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How to Identify Your Accomplishments
What have you done that makes you proud? This exercise will help you identify your own accomplishments.
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How to Create Your Master Resumé
A master resumé is a document that gathers all your skills, accomplishments, experience and training in one place making your future work search activities faster and easier.
Build Your Master Resumé
Build your master resumé with this online template that guides you through everything you need to capture your work history.
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Write down as many of your own core skills as you can. List any skill that you are able to perform as well as most people. You don’t have to be an expert at something to add it to the list.

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Core Skills Exercise

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

For each skill, ask yourself the questions journalists ask: who, what, when, where, why and how. Use the answers to describe each of your skills as accurately as possible. For example, if you write down the skill teaching, ask yourself who you teach, what you teach, when you teach, where you teach, why you teach and how you teach. You might say, “I teach weekly adult vegetarian-cooking classes through a continuing education program in Big City, Alberta, to help people incorporate healthy vegetarian choices into their diets.”

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Know Your Core Skills and How to Sell Them

Employers look for a wide range of skills. Some skills relate to specific types of work. Others are core skills that you need for every job. If you know your core skills, you can use them to impress potential employers. This will help you land the job you want.
Describe how you have used this skill in the past. Be specific. Who benefited from this skill? What needed doing and why? Where did you do it and when? How did you contribute if it was a teamwork situation?
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