The 4th of our 10 tips for anyone looking to progress their career. A two-minute read about identifying your personal skill set might be all the inspiration you need!
Expanding your Skill Set – Tip 4 of 10
The job skills shortage isn’t going anywhere so here is this week’s tip that you can take to improve the probability of your career success.
Tip 4 of 10: Identify your personal skill set
Conduct you own skills summary index. There are many ways you can do this, via 360 Degree Feedback, Self-Assessment and Skills-Assessment to name a few, but if you look back through your career history and in combination with any of the above, you should be able to identify quite a few.
Generally, there are two areas that you will want to consider (a) your soft transferable skills and (b) your hard/ technical transferable skills.
Soft Transferable Skills
Soft skills commonly relate to a person’s interpersonal skills; how we interact with others and navigate our environment. These skills are usually more innate and are harder to measure than hard skills. Examples – leadership, communication, empathy, teamwork, adaptability.
Hard / Technical Skills
Hard or technical skills generally are learned skills gained through either experience and or qualifications and training, then enhanced through practice and repetition. Hard skills are easier to measure than soft skills because they can be easily related to productivity and efficiency. Examples – accounting, data management, project management, copywriting.
Once you have identified and evaluated yours, get others to challenge your thinking to help you rationalise them.
So, closing the skills gap divide might not be as daunting as you first thought and may not require anything more than a fresh perspective and way of looking at it. It sounds simple and it is, it’s just not always easy, especially when trying to do it alone.
For practical advice on how to make the change without being overwhelmed contact us to discuss how we can help.