Analysing your skills
Use this activity to help you analyse the types of skills you have. It will help you work out what you are good at and the skills you might like to develop further.
Think about your hard and soft skills
Hard skills are specific, sometimes technical activities that you can do competently. For example, doing precise, detailed and accurate work, or driving vehicles and using equipment.
Soft skills are qualities and strengths that are specific to you as an individual. For example, readily taking responsibility and adapting easily to a wide range of activities and unexpected changes.
Think about whether your skills are transferable, specialist or self-management
Transferable skills can be gained in a range of settings, not just the workplace, and are useful for a variety of jobs, for instance influencing and persuading people. These can be soft or hard skills.
Specialist skills are specific to a particular area of work and are often gained by work experience or specialist training, for instance using scientific equipment. These are usually hard skills.
Self-management skills can be gained and used in a range of settings and relate to how you work, for instance using your time effectively. These can be both hard and soft skills.
Analyse your skills
- Write your skills in the boxes below.
- For each skill, decide if it’s a transferable, self-management or a specialist skill and select from the drop down box.
- Then decide if you are competent in this skill, need to improve it or would like the chance to develop it further, and select from the drop down box.
When you are done, you can discuss the skills that you would like to develop further with your facilitator or someone who can help you plan ways to do this.
