Job Skills Examples

 Ability to work under  Creating meaningful work

pressure   Critical thinking skills
 Accuracy  Customer service skills
 Adaptability   Dealing with complaints
 Administering  Decision making skills
medication   Defining problems
 Advising people  Delegating skills
 Analyzing data  Designing systems
 Analyzing problems  Determination
 Assembling equipment  Developing plans for
 Attention to detail projects
 Auditing financial data   Diplomacy skills
 Analytical skills  Displaying art
 Attention to details   Distributing products
 Being thorough  Dramatizing ideas
 Brainstorming  Driving safely 
 Budgeting  Editing
 Building new business   Effective listening skills 
 Business communication  Effective study skills
skills  Encouraging people
 Business management  Enforcing rules
skills  Entertaining others
 Calculating data  Envisioning solutions or
 Categorizing records ideas
 Checking for accuracy  Estimating project
 Coaching skills workload
 Collaborating ideas  Ethics
 Collecting items  Evaluating programs
 Communicating with  Expressing feelings
young or old people  Expressing ideas
 Comparing results  Extracting information 
 Comprehending books or  Finding missing
ideas information
 Conducting interviews  Following instructions 
 Conflict resolution   Gathering information
 Confronting other people  Generating accounts
 Constructing buildings  Goal setting 
 Consulting organizations  Initiator 
 Counseling people   Handling money
 Creative thinking skills   Identifying problems
 Imagining innovative  Negotiating skills
solutions  Operating equipment
 Information management  Organizing files
 Inspecting buildings  Organizing tasks
 Inspecting equipment  Patience
 Interacting with various  People management skills
people   Performing clerical work 
 Interpersonal  Performing numerical
communication skills  analysis
 Interpreting languages  Persuading others
 Interviewing   Planning meetings 
 Inventing products/ideas  Planning organizational
 Investigating solutions needs
 Knowledge of  Predicting future trends
community   Preparing written
 Knowledge of concepts communications
and principles  Prioritization skills
 Knowledge of government  Problem analysis skills
affairs  Problem solving skills
 Leading teams  Product promotion
 Listening to people  Promoting events
 Maintain focus with  Proposing ideas
interruptions  Providing customer
 Maintaining a high level of service
production  Providing discipline 
 Maintaining accurate  Public speaking
records  Questioning others
 Maintaining emotional  Quick learning skills
control under stress  Raising funds
 Maintaining files  Reading 
 Maintaining schedules or  Recognizing problems
times  Recruiting
 Making important  Rehabilitating people
decisions  Relating to others
 Managing organizations  Reliability
 Managing people   Remembering information
 Mediating between people  Repairing equipment 
 Meeting deadlines  Reporting data
 Meeting new people   Researching 
 Motivating others  Resolving conflicts 
 Multi-tasking  Resourcefulness
 Navigating politics   Responsibility
 Results orientated  
 Risk taking
 Running meetings
 Sales ability
 Screening telephone calls
 Self-motivated  
 Selling ideas
 Selling products or
services
 Serving people
 Setting performance
standards
 Setting up demonstrations
 Sketching charts or
diagrams
 Strategic thinking
 Suggesting courses of
action
 Summarizing data
 Supervising employees
 Supervising operations
 Supporting others 
Taking decisive action
 Taking inititiave
 Taking personal
responsibility
 Teaching skills 
Team building
 Teamwork skills
 Technical work
 Thinking logically
 Time management skills
 Training skills
 Translating words
 Using computers
 Verbal communication
skills
 Working creatively  
 Working with statistics
 Writing clearly and
concisely
 Writing letters, papers, or
proposals
 Life Skills Examples
 Baking
 Canning or preserving
 Changing a tire on a car
 Changing a light bulb
 Checking the oil in a car
 Cleaning your residence
 Clearing a drain
 Clearing the table
 Cooking
 Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation
 Driving  
 Drying clothes and dishes
 Dusting furniture
 First Aid
 Folding clothes, towels, or
sheets
 Following a recipe
Personal Life Skills Examples
 Caring
 Common sense
 Cooperation
 Curiosity
 Effort  
 Flexibility
 Friendship
 Initiative
 Making a household
budget
 Mopping the floor
 Mowing the lawn
 Organizing a closet,
cupboard, shed, attic or garage
 Painting a room
 Plumbing
 Raking leaves
 Setting the table
 Sweeping the floor
Taking out the trash
 Tracking personal
finances
 Vacuuming
 Vegetable gardening
 Wallpapering
 Washing clothes, dishes,
windows or the car
 Integrity
 Organization
 Patience
 Perseverance
Problem solving
 Responsibility
 Sense of humor