What are Your
MARKETABLE SKILLS?
Identify your “selling points”
 List your top 5-10 skills/qualities
 Consider how these skills related to your
career interests.
 Be ready to provide examples of how you
have demonstrated these strengths.
PLANNING/ORGANIZATION/COMMUNICATION
□ Generate ideas
□ Speak effectively to individuals
□ Initiate projects
□ Speak effectively to groups
□ Identify problems and needs
□ Think on your feet
□ Make and keep a schedule
□ Persuade, convince, promote, sell
□ Schedule/coordinate operations
□ Define, explain, interpret
□ Set realistic goals
□ Translate/interpret language
□ Set priorities
□ Summarize/write clearly and concisely
□ Develop efficient systems
□ Use media to present ideas creatively
□ Critique, edit, proofread
□ Write creatively
□ Budget development, management
□ Use math or statistics to answer questions
□ Be exact and accurate
□ Data analysis / analytics
LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT
□ Take initiative
□ Work without supervision
□ Mediate/negotiate
□ Make decisions
□ Take risks
□ Organize others to achieve a goal
□ Supervise, train others
RESEARCH/ INVESTIGATION/ TECHNICAL
□ Use technology to calculate and analyze
□ Identify appropriate information sources
□ Survey, interview, gather information
□ Organize information
□ Analyze information
□ Computer and technical skills – specify:
OTHER, including academic knowledge, class projects, etc.:
LIST YOUR TOP 10 Qualities/Skills:
Consider examples for each!
DETAIL/FOLLOW THROUGH
□ Follow through on plans
□ Handle many tasks at once
□ Work under pressure
□ Get projects done on time
□ Collect materials, purchasing
□ Detail oriented
□ Be orderly/organized
INTERPERSONAL
□ Relate well to public
□ Listen/understand feelings of others
□ Work well on a team
□ Deal patiently with difficult people
□ Accept differing opinions
□ Express feelings appropriately
□ Advise/counsel/encourage
□ Use tact, diplomacy, discretion
□ Teach/train
WORKING WITH NUMBERS
□ Manage money
□ Keep financial records
□ Prepare financial reports
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