Identifying Your Skills - NDSU



Identifying Your Skills

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As you think about the tangible, transferable skills you are developing through your co-curricular involvement, use the skills listed in the nine groups below to help you identify the unique skills you have acquired.

Creative Skills

Acting

Conceptualizing

Designing

Developing

Entertainment

Formulating

Generation

Imagining

Innovating

Inspiring

Originating

Painting

Revamping Visualizing

Writing

Teaching Skills

Administering

Advising

Clarifying

Coaching

Conducting

Demonstrating

Encouraging

Enlightening

Evaluating

Explaining

Grading

Influencing

Informing

Instructing

Leading

Lecturing

Motivating

Persuading

Reinforcing

Training

Tutoring

Financial Skills

Accounting

Allocating

Appraising

Auditing

Budgeting

Calculating

Computing

Managing

Record Keeping

Selling

Solving

Management Skills

Controlling

Coordinating

Decision-making

Delegating

Diplomacy

Directing

Enforcing

Exercising

Forecasting

Goal Setting

Governing

Mobilizing

Molding

Monitoring

Planning

Problem-solving

Reviewing

Scheduling

Strategizing

Supervising

Communication Skills

Collaborating

Confronting

Corresponding

Describing

Illustrating

Influencing

Interpreting

Listening

Manipulating

Mediating

Negotiation

Persuading

Politicking

Presenting

Proposing

Reading

Reasoning

Reporting

Speaking

Translating

Writing

Research Skills

Analyzing

Applying

Collecting

Diagnosing

Documenting

Examining

Identifying

Inquiring

Interviewing

Investigating

Research Skills Cont.

Observing

Recognizing

Studying

Surveying

Synthesizing

Testing

Validating

Verifying

Detail Skills

Arranging

Classifying

Compiling

Copying

Correcting

Critiquing

Distributing

Editing

Following Through

Processing

Purchasing

Recording

Reorganizing

Revising

Streamlining

Summarizing

Time Management

Updating

Helping Skills

Adjusting

Advocating

Attending

Caring

Consulting

Counseling

Empowering

Encouraging

Enlisting

Facilitating

Guiding

Listening

Rapport

Relating

Resolving

Respecting

Sensitivity

Serving

Supporting

Teamwork

Tolerating

Understanding

Miscellaneous

Achieving

Adapting

Balancing

Determining

Establishing

Exhibiting

Expending

Implementing

Improvising

Initiating

Judging

Justifying

Launching

Persistence

Presiding

Producing programming

Promoting

Publicizing

Recruiting

Representing

Selecting

Self-assessment

Self-awareness

Self-confidence

Sense of Humor

Strengthening

Tactfulness

Timing

Trouble-shooting

*Adapted from the Student Development transcript, Oregon State Universit

Your leadership involvements are a very vital part of your college experience. Adding them to your resume may prove to be the deciding factor in your race for the "perfect job." It's important, therefore, to articulate the skills and experiences you have gained through your co-curricular involvements.

To decide what skills to focus on for your resume or interview, examine all of your experiences and list the major tasks and accomplishments of each, then:

1. Select the skills you utilized and enjoyed the most in your positions, or

2. Select those skills that are most relevant to a potential job in your field

Here are some skills you may have gained through your participation in co-curricular activities:

Financial Management

Kept financial records

Made budget projections/developed budgets

Prepared financial reports

Completed successful grant applications

Raised funds

Motivational Skills

Sold ideas, programs or courses of action

Influenced attitudes or ideas of others

Recruited talent or leadership

Got diverse groups to work together

Managed conflict

Arbitrated

Mediated issues with individuals or groups

Utilized crisis intervention

Developed public speaking skills

Planned for and initiated change

Educational/Helping Skills

Advised students/groups

Helped others to express their views

Facilitated group discussion

Organized and administered training programs

Facilitated personal growth and development

Developed effective listening skills

Encouraged teamwork

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