Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes

Your Skills and Aptitudes
Discover
How skills and aptitudes differ
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Discover
Where your skills and attitudes might lead you
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Why It’s Important
Your skills and aptitudes are clues to what you can do.
They can point you toward different careers.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Key Terms skill ability aptitude job-specific skills transferable skills
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
A skill is the ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
Once you have learned something, it becomes a skill.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
An ability is a skill you have already developed.
An aptitude is your potential for learning a skill.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
Having an aptitude is having a knack for something, like drawing or training pets.
Aptitudes can be developed into skills.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Understanding Different
Kinds of Skills
Job-specific skills are the skills necessary to do a particular job, like balancing a budget or programming a computer.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Understanding Different
Kinds of Skills
Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.
Transferable skills are always necessary.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Understanding Different
Kinds of Skills
Employers always want workers to have both job-specific skills and general transferable skills.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Graphic Organizer
Transferable Workplace Skills
Communication
Skills
Adaptability
Skills
Listening Skills Social Skills
Transferable
Skills
Problem-Solving
Skills
Technology
Skills
Teamwork
Skills
Organizing and
Planning Skills
Decision-Making
Skills
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Q and A
I know exactly what job I want.
Why should I waste time developing skills that don’t seem related to this job?
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Q and A
Most jobs require workers to have many skills.
A variety of skills is necessary for succeeding and advancing in a job.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Complete a formal career interest and aptitude assessment.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Match Interests and Aptitudes to
Opportunities Once you’ve completed your self assessment, write down several career opportunities that match your interests and aptitudes.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Get Feedback Show your list of aptitudes, interests, and potential careers to a friend, a family member, a teacher, or someone else you trust.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Develop Your Skills Select the career from your list that interests you most and consider what skills you would need to achieve that career.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Critical Thinking Review
Critical Thinking
Q Should you focus on developing skills related to your aptitudes?
A It is easier to develop skills for which you already have an aptitude. However, you should work to develop skills that you want to master, even if you don’t have an aptitude.
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Your Skills and Aptitudes
Critical Thinking Review
Critical Thinking
Q Why is it important to develop skills in more than one area?
A More job opportunities will be open to those with more skills.
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End of Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes