Directions: Check the boxes to the left of each SCANS competency, skill, or quality that you’ve developed, and circle the portions of the detailed descriptions of each item that apply to you. (SCANS refers to the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. The U.S. Department of Labor published
SCANS to identify the transferable competencies needed for career success in the 21st century.)
Resources: Identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources
 Manage Time: Choose relevant, goal-related activities; rank them in order of importance; allow time for different activities; understand, prepare, follow schedules
 Manage Money: Use budgets, keep records, make adjustments to meet objectives.
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Manage Material and Facilities: Acquire, store, allocate, and use materials or space efficiently
 Manage Human Resources: Assess other people's skills and distribute work accordingly; evaluate performance and provide feedback
Interpersonal: Work well with others
 Work as a Team Member: Contribute to group effort
 Teach Others New Skills
 Serve Clients or Customers: Work to satisfy customers’ expectations
 Show Leadership: Communicate ideas, persuade others and inspire action
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Negotiate Decisions: Work toward agreements involving an exchange of resources; resolve conflicts
 Work with Diversity: Work well with people from diverse backgrounds and orientations.
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Information: Obtain and use information
 Acquire and Evaluate Information
 Organize and Maintain Information
 Interpret and Communicate Information
 Use Computers to Process Information
Systems: Understand complex social, organizational, technological systems and interrelationships
 Understand Systems: Know how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operate effectively with them
 Monitor and Correct Performance: Spot trends, predict impacts on system operations, diagnose deviations in systems' performance and correct malfunctions
 Improve Systems/Design New Systems: Suggest modifications to existing systems; develop new or alternative systems to improve performance
Technology: Work with a variety of technologies
 Select Technology: Choose procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies
 Select Technology: Choose procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies
 Apply Technology to Task: Understand goals and proper procedures for the setup and operation of equipment
 Maintain/Troubleshoot Technology: Prevent, identify, or solve problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies
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Reading: Locate, understand, and interpret written information including material in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules
 Writing: Communicate thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; create documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flowcharts
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Arithmetic/Mathematics: Perform basic computations and approach practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques
Listening: Receive, attend to, interpret, respond to verbal messages and other cues
Speaking: Organize ideas and communicate orally
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Thinking Skills: Think creatively, make decisions, solve problems, visualize, know how to learn, and reason
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Creative Thinking:
Decision-Making:
Come up with new ideas
Identify goals and obstacles, offer alternatives, consider risks, evaluate and choose the best alternative
Problem Solving: Recognize problems and form and implement plan of action
Knowing How to Learn: knowledge and skills
Use efficient learning techniques to obtain and apply new
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Reasoning: Discover a rule or underlying principle that explains a relationship between two or more objects and apply it when solving a problem
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Personal Qualities: Display responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty
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Responsibility:
Self-Esteem:
Sociability: politeness
Put forth a high level of effort, persevere toward goal attainment
Believe in own self-worth, maintain a positive view of self
Demonstrate understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and
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Self-Management: show self-control
Asses self accurately, set personal goals, monitor progress, and
 Integrity and Honesty: Choose ethical ways to act
Directions: Review all the items from the SCANS inventory worksheets that you checked. Then choose the five strongest competencies related to your current job target.
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