Job Skills List

administering programs planning agendas/meetings updating files

advising people planning organizational needs setting up demonstrations

analyzing data predicting futures sketching charts or diagrams

assembling apparatus rehabilitating people writing reports

auditing financial reports organizing tasks writing for publication

budgeting expenses prioritizing work expressing feelings

calculating numerical data creating new ideas checking for accuracy

finding information meeting people classifying records

handling complaints evaluating programs coaching individuals

handling detail work editing work collecting money

imagining new solutions tolerating interruptions compiling statistics

interpreting languages confronting other people inventing new ideas

dispensing information constructing buildings proposing ideas

adapting new procedures coping with deadlines investigating problems

negotiating/arbitrating conflicts promoting events locating missing information

speaking to the public raising funds dramatizing ideas

writing letters/papers/proposals questioning others estimating physical space

reading volumes of material being thorough organizing files

remembering information coordinating schedules/times managing people

interviewing prospective running meetings selling products

employees

listening to others supervising employees teaching/instructing/training

individuals

relating to the public enduring long hours inspecting physical objects

entertaining people displaying artistic ideas distributing products

deciding uses of money managing an organization delegating responsibility

 measuring boundaries serving individuals mediating between people

counseling/consulting people motivating others persuading others

operating equipment reporting information summarizing information

supporting others encouraging others delegating responsibilities

determining a problem defining a problem comparing results

screening telephone calls maintaining accurate records drafting reports

collaborating ideas administering medication comprehending ideas

overseeing operations motivating others generating accounts

teaching/instructing/training thinking in a logical manner making decisions

individuals

becoming actively involved defining performance standards resolving conflicts

analyzing problems recommending courses of action selling ideas

preparing written communications expressing ideas orally to conducting interviews

individuals or groups

performing numeric analysis conducting meetings setting priorities

setting work/committee goals developing plans for projects gathering information

taking personal responsibility thinking of creative ideas providing discipline when

necessary

maintaining a high level of activity enforcing rules and regulations meeting new people

developing a climate of interacting with people at different picking out important information
enthusiasm, teamwork, and levels
cooperation

creating meaningful and taking independent action skillfully applying professional

challenging work knowledge

maintaining emotional control knowledge of concepts and providing customers with service
under stress principles

knowledge of
community/government affairs

Throughout my life, all my skills have been gained from academic and professional work. From high
school and from my first job at In-N-Out Burger I learned certain skills that have helped me in other
endeavors and will hopefully help me in my professional future as well.
At my part-time job, I have a lot of responsibilities that help me hone my skills. My first, and main
responsibility, is being able to stand and work for long hours at a time, without wavering in ability, so I
definitely have to endure long hours of work at a time and maintain a high level of activity the entire time.
My job in the customer service industry also requires me to interact with customers, I have learned to sell
food items and merchandise to customers, serve customers, listen to customers, and tolerate interruptions
some customers may cause. Customers can sometimes be very nice and easy to communicate with and
serve, while others may have complaints that you have to deal with no matter how outrageous – it is
important to know when to deal with a customer yourself or get your manager to help the customer. Being
able to understand and handle all types of customers is important in any job as it goes along with
understanding and dealing with any person in a professional environment. At my job, since it is a level
system, I work with many people of higher or lower levels to me. With lower levels I sometimes must
train them to do jobs I have been taught to do as well as direct them when they are unsure of the task they
are supposed to complete. Even though I am not a manager of any sorts, I sometimes must enforce the
rules of the store for lower levels when I see them doing something wrong or dangerous. As well, I must
be able to work well with the lower levels (and even the higher levels) to create a safe and enthusiastic
work environment. I tend to understand how to increase teamwork and cooperation when it comes to my
coworkers, as I tend to understand people a lot. I also have the abilities to express how I feel to my
coworkers and managers without influencing their emotions – I can explain a bad day I am having but
still be enthusiastic and work happily.

Outside of work, school is where I get my other skills that I’m sure will help in a professional setting.
With school, prioritizing work and your time is very important, and with my organization skills and
planning skills, I can prioritize assignments and studying over other things I need to do, and still have
enough time to relax when needed. This helps me cope with assignment deadlines I may have, or
deadlines in general. From some classes I have taken, like Japanese, Spanish and American Sign
Language, I know enough of some foreign languages to be able to interpret what others are saying.
Although I am not fluent in the languages, I still know enough to be able to understand certain words and
situations, I know this from having interactions with foreign students who speak such languages and
talking to them. From more general education classes I have taken, I have learned efficient ways to
research information. I can find sources quite easily with specific word searches and I also know what to
with the sources when I get them, by skimming through the table of contents and summary. These are
skills I have learned from writing so many research papers, something I have gotten good at. I enjoy
writing so whenever there are options in class to write, I pick that option. I also communicate with my
advisors and professors a lot, so I know how to professionally write someone an email. Writing is a
natural skill I have that my education has helped me elaborate on.