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    The document provides guidance on developing a skills matrix to identify and demonstrate transferable skills for career management purposes. It emphasizes listing concrete examples of skills and achievements along with the positive outcomes and value added. The skills matrix template highlights including what tasks were performed, how they were accomplished, why the tasks added value, and the resulting positive outcomes.

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    The document provides guidance on developing a skills matrix to identify and demonstrate transferable skills for career management purposes. It emphasizes listing concrete examples of skills and achievements along with the positive outcomes and value added. The skills matrix template highlights including what tasks were performed, how they were accomplished, why the tasks added value, and the resulting positive outcomes.

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    The document provides guidance on developing a skills matrix to identify and demonstrate transferable skills for career management purposes. It emphasizes listing concrete examples of skills and achievements along with the positive outcomes and value added. The skills matrix template highlights including what tasks were performed, how they were accomplished, why the tasks added value, and the resulting positive outcomes.

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    The document provides guidance on developing a skills matrix to identify and demonstrate transferable skills for career management purposes. It emphasizes listing concrete examples of skills and achievements along with the positive outcomes and value added. The skills matrix template highlights including what tasks were performed, how they were accomplished, why the tasks added value, and the resulting positive outcomes.

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    The key takeaways are that determining your marketable skills through proven examples of achievements and outcomes is important for career management. Demonstrating skills gained from various experiences and how they add value to employers is important for setting yourself apart from competition.

    The main steps to determine your marketable skills are to list events where you enjoyed your contributions and were proud of them, and then for each event describe what you did in detail, the environment, whether you worked alone or with others, if you worked with things, data or people, what part you enjoyed most, and what skills you used.

    Some examples of generalist skills provided are adaptability, administration, advising, and analysis. Some examples of specialist skills provided are auditing, budgeting, coaching, computing, and creativity & innovation.

    SKILLSMATRIX

    Determiningyourmarketableandtransferableskills(theskillsyoubringtoaprospectiveemployer)isthe firststepinmanagingyourcareer.Thegoalofthisstepistonotonlylistwhatyouaregoodatdoingbutalso producesolidexamplesofhowyouappliedthoseskillstoachievepositiveoutcomes.Thisproventrack recordapproachisnotjustarecordofyourprevioussuccesses,butrather,agoodindicatorofyourfuture potentialandthevalueyouwillbringtoanorganization. WhileitisimportanttodemonstrateWHATyouknow,itisvitalthatyouareabletoarticulatetheSKILLS youpossess,theVALUEyouaddedinpreviouspositions,andthepositiveOUTCOMESyouachievedthrough yourwork. Whetheryougainedskillsthroughwork,volunteerpositions,orextracurricularactivities,yourabilityto showyourbestqualitiesonyourCVwillsetyouapartfromyourcompetition.Bydemonstratingskills gainedthroughexperiences,accompaniedbyasolidknowledgebaseandpositiveoutcomes,youare providinganemployereveryreasontowanttoconsideryouasapotentialcandidate. Inthehighlightedspacesbelow,list3eventsinyourlifewhereyouenjoyedwhatyoudidandwereproudof yourcontributions.Foreachevent,describewhatyoudid.Bespecificandlisteachstepindetail.The questionsbelowaredesignedtohelpyouanalyzeeachevent. Event1: 1. Whatwasyourmainachievement?Listinasmuchdetailaspossible. 2. Whatwastheenvironmentyouworkedin? 3. Didyouworkaloneorwithpeople? 4. Didyouworkwiththings,data,orpeople? 5. Whatpartofitgaveyouthemostenjoyment? 6. Whatskillsdidyouuse?(Refertopage3foralistofexampleskills) SKILLSMATRIX 1

    Event2: 1. Whatwasyourmainachievement?Listinasmuchdetailaspossible. 2. Whatwastheenvironmentyouworkedin? 3. Didyouworkaloneorwithpeople? 4. Didyouworkwiththings,data,orpeople? 5. Whatpartofitgaveyouthemostenjoyment? 6. Whatskillsdidyouuse?(Refertopage3foralistofexampleskills) Event3: 1. Whatwasyourmainachievement?Listinasmuchdetailaspossible. 2. Whatwastheenvironmentyouworkedin? 3. Didyouworkaloneorwithpeople? 4. Didyouworkwiththings,data,orpeople? 5. Whatpartofitgaveyouthemostenjoyment? 6. Whatskillsdidyouuse?(Refertopage3foralistofexampleskills)

    SKILLSMATRIX 2

    SampleSkillsthislistwillgiveyouastartingpointtodevelopyourlistofskills
    GENERALISTSKILLS Adaptive Administration Advising Analysing Assertive Computing Coordinating DecisionMaking Delivery Explaining Flexibility GeneralManagement Imaginative Improvising Initiating Inventiveness IT/ComputerLiteracy LateralThinking Learning Listening Mediating Numerical Observation Planning&Organising Presenting ProblemSolving Reading Researching Resilience WrittenCommunication SPECIALISTSKILLS Auditing Budgeting Building Composing Consulting Creativity&Innovation Designing Entrepreneurial Evaluating FinancialManagement Financing Fundraising Illustrating InformationMgmt Innovating Interviewing Investigating Manual Marketing Mechanical ForeignLanguage Networking ProblemSolving ProcessImprovement ProjectManagement PublicRelations PublicSpeaking QualityAssurance Recruiting Researching Selling StrategicPlanning TechnicalCompetence Troubleshooting PEOPLESKILLS ClientRelations Coaching Counseling CustomerService Delegating Diplomacy Facilitating HumanRelations Influencing Inspiring Interpersonal Interpreting Liaising Leading Linguistic Motivating Negotiating PeopleManagement Persuading Questioning RelationshipMgmt VerbalCommunication Teaching Training Teambuilding PERSONALSKILLS Integrity/Honesty Responsibility SelfManagement Sociability

    SKILLSMATRIX 3

    CreatingyourSkillsMatrix Theskillsmatrixwillhelpyouidentifytheessentialelementsyouneedtodevelopbulletstatementsforyour CVaswellasprovideexamplesforyoutociteincoverlettersandinterviews.Byformulatingstatements whichcontaineachoftheessentialelements,youareansweringthequestionsemployerswillhaveabout howyoucanbestmeettheirneeds.Youaredirectlymarketingwhatyouhavetooffertomatchtheneedsof theirpositionwhichistheobjectiveofaneffectiveCV,coverletter,andinterview. Youshouldprovidemultipleexamplesforeachskillsothatyouwillhavemanydifferentexamplesofyour skillstouseindifferentways.Considerexperiencesyouhavehadthroughworkaswellasvolunteeror extracurricularactivities. Afteryouhavecompletedyourmatrix,youcanbeginselectingthebestexamplesforyourCV.Becauseyou willchangeyourCVtomarketyourexperiencetoeachspecificposition,thismatrixshouldprovideyouwith ampleexamplestooffer.Asyougainmoreexperienceanddevelopyourskills,youcanaddtoyourmatrix overtime.Inthisway,youwillcontinuetodevelopselfmarketingstatementswhichwillsetyouapartfrom othercandidatesbyclearlydemonstratingwhatyouhavetoofferanemployer.
    SKILL WHATDIDYOUDO? HOWDIDYOUDOIT? (CHALLENGE/TASK) (ACTION/METHODUSED) Researchedindustry standards,assembled dataintoclearand conciseformat,and customizedtext
    Example#2 Example#3 Example#4

    WHYDIDYOUDOIT? WHATWASTHERESULT? (HOWYOUADDVALUE) (POSITIVEOUTCOME) ToprovideSOPfor newCSrepsand documentpolicies andproceduresfor jobspecs


    Example#2 Example#3 Example#4

    WRITTEN Wrotecustomer COMMUNICATION servicemanual forstartupclient

    Increasedqualityand consistencyofcustomer serviceefforts,reduced complaints,andincreased customersatisfactionby 30%


    Example#2 Example#3 Example#4

    COMMUNICATION SKILL#3 SKILL#4

    Example#2 Example#3 Example#4

    SKILLSMATRIX 4

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