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Assess Your Skills to Find Out What You Know
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Susan Aaron
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Sometimes
it's not obvious what you need to know to succeed at a
particular job. Or perhaps you want to evaluate your
career skills and knowledge in comparison to others
working in the same field. In both cases, you will be
looking for an assessment, a test or evaluation that
measures your skills or knowledge in a given subject
area.
MonsterLearning asked Matthew Greene of Howard Greene
and Associates, educational planning counselors and
publishers of the Greenes' Guides, and John Bogosian of
Manchester Partners International, global workforce
consultants, for some tips on measuring your skills and
knowledge.
Find Out What You Need
If you're looking toward the job you want in three, five
or even 10 years, you have to find out what you'll need
then. Make a list of the technical skills and motivated
abilities you'll need in the position you desire.
Here are some suggestions to help you develop your list:
Informational Interviews
Instead of doing an interview to learn about a company,
do one to learn about the profession. Meet with someone
in your target position and ask about his experiences,
education and career track. Observe his personality. Ask
what type of person is successful in this profession.
Contact a Professional Association
Professional associations educate their members through
networking, conferences and materials. Look at what your
association is teaching. Ask members what skills and
strengths have Aided them most.
Look at Job Descriptions
Search Monster's job listings. These descriptions will
include skills and education requirements you can add to
your list.
Figure Out What You Have Now
Once you have a list of the skills you'll need, check
off what you already have. If you use a skill regularly
or have a certification, checking it off is easy. Here
are some ways to assess other skills:
Use Benchmarks
To brush up on your hard skills, try to find a quiz or
some sort of benchmark against which to measure
yourself.
Review Your Accomplishments
Bogosian suggests listing your accomplishments on the
job, and then asking yourself what skills and strengths
you used to complete those tasks. Look over the list of
skills and strengths needed for your target job. Is
there any overlap?
Review Your Passions
Greene proposes examining the things you do outside of
work. If your work doesn't allow for certain
competencies to emerge, they might show up in other
activities. For example, say you're working in a
reSearch position but someday want to run a marketing
firm. You may develop the necessary team-building skills
in your duties as captain of your Ultimate Frisbee team.
Examine Your Emotional Intelligence
Beyond hard skills, there is a question of your
fundamental worldview. Greene suggests learning about
your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is
defined by how you feel about yourself, your contacts
and your place in the world. Like your IQ, your
emotional intelligence is a large predictor of how well
you'll do in your career. Queendom.com offers a quiz to
familiarize you with the concept of emotional
intelligence and lets you rate yourself.
Comparing the Lists
Now you have a list of what you'll need and a list of
what you have. Whatever is left on the list of skills
needed for the job will be -- surprise -- those things
you still need to learn. Your next task will be to
determine how best to learn them.
What is a technical skill or motivated ability?
A technical skill is a learned set of procedures, like
writing, programming or drawing. A motivated ability is
a nontechnical skill, ability, talent or personal
quality, like motivating, observing or empathizing. |
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