CAREER LIFE CONNECTIONS

Name: Jappi Takhar

Expanding Your List of Personal Skills

Circle or highlight personal skills that reflect you. The word list below will be the most
valuable tool you will need for your cover letter and resume.

Administrating Programs Interviewing people

Advising People Inventing new ideas
Arranging social functions Listening to others
Assembling apparatus Locating missing information
Auditing financial records Managing an organization
Budgeting expenses Mediating between people
Calculating numerical data Meeting in public
Checking for accuracy Monitoring progress of others
Classifying records Motivating others
Coaching individuals Negotiating contracts
Collecting money Operating equipment
Compiling statistics Organizing people and tasks
Confronting other people Persuading others
Constructing buildings Planning agendas
Coordinating events Planning organizational needs
Corresponding with others Preparing materials
Counseling people Printing by hand
Creating new ideas Problem solving
Deciding uses of money Programming computers
Delegating responsibility Promoting events
Designing data systems Protecting property
Dispensing information Raising funds
Displaying artistic ideas Reading volumes of material
Distributing products Recording scientific data
Dramatizing problems or ideas Rehabilitating people
Editing publications Repairing mechanical devices
Enduring long hours Reviewing programs
Entertaining people Running meetings
Estimating physical space Selling products
Evaluating programs Servicing Individuals
Exhibiting plans Setting up demonstrations
Finding information Speaking in public
Handling complaints Supervising others
Handling detailed work Teaching classes
Interpreting languages Writing clear reports