Knowing What You Do Best

To determine your best career choices, you must be able to identify and build on your
skills and abilities. In the following checklist, I ask you to give more thought to those
dimensions of yourself. Rate yourself Excellent, Good, or Fair on each skill and then
choose your top ten skills in each area.

SKILLS WORKING WITH PEOPLE

Acting
Advising
Advocacy
Arbitration
Clarifying
Client/customer relations
Coaching
Collaborating
Communicating
Conflict management
Consulting
Counseling
Creating synergies
Debating
Decision-making
Delegating
Demonstrating
Developing people
Diplomacy/tact
Directing
Effecting change
Entertaining
Facilitating
Helping others
Hosting
Influencing
Initiating
Instructing
Interrogating
Interviewing
Leadership
Listening
Litigation
Managing people
Mediation
Mentoring
Monitoring
Motivating
Negotiation
Nurturing
Performing
Placating
Policing
Promoting
Public speaking
Recruiting
Representing
Sales
Socializing
Supervising
Teaching
Team-building
Training

SKILLS WORKING WITH PEOPLE

Accounting
Analyzing
Appraising
Assessing
Auditing
Bookkeeping
Budgeting
Calculating
Cataloguing
Charting
Classifying
Compiling data
Computer programming
Conceptualizing
Creating
Designing
Drafting
Drawing
Driving
Editing
Evaluating
Experimenting
Financial planning
Fund-raising
Forecasting
Formulating policy
Hypothesizing
Interpreting
Inventing
Investing
Machine operation
Mechanical aptitude
Planning
Policy analysis
Policy development
Problem analysis
Problem-solving
Program design
Program development
Project design
Project development
Project management
Reading blueprints
Reducing costs
Regulating
Reorganizing
Researching
Reviewing
Scheduling
Spatial relations
Surveying
System analysis
System design
Testing
Troubleshooting
Typing
Using tools