Choosing a career consistent with your strengths, skills and abilities is a great way to increase the success of any career plan!

Strengths

What types of things are you good at? If you look back over your life, from the time you were small until now, you will likely see that a pattern of strengths emerged very early in life. For example, you may have always been good with money, with people, or mechanical tasks.

Skills & Abilities

Most skills and abilities are learned - you are not born with them. It’s likely that some types of things that you do well came easier to you than others. You may be great at fixing things, but not very good at athletics. It’s important to take a realistic look at the skills and abilities you have, and those you are interested or willing to acquire.

Work Content Knowledges

Work content knowledges are those subject areas you must know to function in a job. These knowledges may be acquired on the job at entry level or through training or college education to prepare for higher levels of performance.

PSY140 Career and Life Planning course includes substantial work on identifying your transferable skills.

Many skills are transferable - in other words, they can be used in many different types of work. Two examples of transferable skills are having strong communication skills or being good with people. It’s important to recognize and build upon your transferable skills since these can be used at just about every occupation you choose!

PSY140 Career and Life Planning course includes substantial work on identifying your transferable skills.

Use Discover (Abilities Inventory) to help you identify your skills and abilities

Note: to gain personal access to Discover, please contact the Student Development Center at 527.4262