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Your Skills and Aptitudes

Discover

How skills and aptitudes differ What your skills and aptitudes are

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Where your skills and attitudes might lead you

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Why Its Important

Your skills and aptitudes are clues to what you can do.

They can point you toward different careers.

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Key Terms

skill ability aptitude job-specific skills transferable skills

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Comparing Skills and Aptitudes

A skill is the ability to perform a task due to training and experience.

Once you have learned something, it becomes a skill.

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Comparing Skills and Aptitudes

An ability is a skill you have already developed. An aptitude is your potential for learning a skill.
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Comparing Skills and Aptitudes

Having an aptitude is having a knack for something, like drawing or training pets.

Aptitudes can be developed into skills.

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Understanding Different Kinds of Skills

Job-specific skills are the skills necessary to do a particular job, like balancing a budget or programming a computer.

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Understanding Different Kinds of Skills

Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.

Transferable skills are always necessary.

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Understanding Different Kinds of Skills

Employers always want workers to have both job-specific skills and general transferable skills.

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Graphic Organizer
Transferable Workplace Skills
Communication Skills Adaptability Skills

Listening Skills Problem-Solving Skills

Technology Skills Decision-Making Skills
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Social Skills
Transferable Skills

Teamwork Skills
Organizing and Planning Skills

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Q and A

I know exactly what job I want. Why should I waste time developing skills that dont seem related to this job?
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Q and A

Most jobs require workers to have many skills. A variety of skills is necessary for succeeding and advancing in a job.

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Try This Activity

Assess Your Career Interests and Aptitudes

Complete a formal career interest and aptitude assessment.

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Assess Your Career Interests and Aptitudes

Match Interests and Aptitudes to Opportunities Once youve completed your self assessment, write down several career opportunities that match your interests and aptitudes.
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Assess Your Career Interests and Aptitudes

Get Feedback Show your list of aptitudes, interests, and potential careers to a friend, a family member, a teacher, or someone else you trust.
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Assess Your Career Interests and Aptitudes

Develop Your Skills Select the career from your list that interests you most and consider what skills you would need to achieve that career.
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Critical Thinking Review

Critical Thinking

Q Should you focus on developing skills

related to your aptitudes?

A It is easier to develop skills for which you

already have an aptitude. However, you should work to develop skills that you want to master, even if you dont have an aptitude.
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Critical Thinking Review

Critical Thinking

Q Why is it important to develop skills in more

than one area?

A More job opportunities will be open to those

with more skills.

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