3 Kinds of “Skills”
1. Functional/transferrable skills
2. Work Content Knowledges
(“skills”)
3. Adaptive Skills

• Definition: Basic portable abilities
• Transferrable between unrelated job fields
• Leisure to work
• School to work

• Are specific to a job or field of work
• Subjects you know

• Personal qualities in a desirable/undesirable employee.
• Work habits.
• Some more important for certain jobs.
• Very important to employer.
• Best proof is through references.

• P 67 due 1/18/13

1. Functional/transferrable skills
2. Work Content Knowledges
(“skills”)
3. Adaptive Skills

Functional/transferrable Skills
Significance:
• 1. identify potential talent
• 2. career change without completely starting over
• 3. help sell yourself
• 4. bank loan proposals for small business

• Examine samples of past behavior

• SUCCESS, ACHIEVEMENT “Something that you feel you have done well, enjoyed and feel proud of”

CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD STORY
1.
You are the main character.
2.
You can remember how you did it. Step by step.
3.
Often solving a problem: money, time, skills/experience
4. Short duration. If a process, take a slice!.

• Putting a cd player in my pickup
• Training my hunting dog
• Sewing a dress
• A special anniversary dinner for parents
• Writing a research paper on cystic fibrosis
• Learning to ski
• Going to school while working/parenting
• Winning pentathalon medal in p.e.

• P 58A (in class hand-out) make a list of at least 4 topics of skills stories from your own life. Try to sample different time periods in your life as well as the different aspects (Work/Leisure/Learning). Refer to your completed page 18A for reminders.

• 1. Person 1 tells/reads story, 2 & 3 listen for skills-report them to 1
• 2. Person 2 tells/reads story, 1 & 3 listen and report back to 2
• 3. Person 3 tells/ reads story, 1 and 2 listen and report
• Step 4: all record skills in pages 60-65

• Define
• 2 reasons why F/T skills are important for you
• List 1 of your favorite F/T Skills