Transferrable skills
General Transferrable Skills:
General Transferrable Skills:
- Communicate: Speak and/or write well and get your ideas across to other easily.
- Interpret: Look at things and make sense of them, figure out what makes things work,why there is a problem, etc.
- Analyze: Break a problem down to see what is really going on.
- Creativity: Use your imagination to come up with new ideas or to solve problems.
- Order Goods/Supplies: Keep track of items and how to order them.
- Decision Making: Make good judgements about what to do in a difficult situation, even when the supervisor is not present.
- Adapt to Situations: Learn a new task and/or work in a different area with different co- workers.
- Explain: Tell others why you do certain things they way you do or why you think the way you do.
- Think Ahead: Plan your day and keep problems/accidents from happening.
- Calculate Numbers: Use a calculator, cash register or computer to answer numerical questions.
- Operate Equipment: Turn equipment on and off as well as how to use it safely and wisely. (If you don't know how to operate certain things, you always ask for help.)
- Record Data: Write thorough and accurate notes/numbers.
- Set Goals: Set goals for yourself to achieve and plan ways to achieve them.
- Learn Quickly: Do new things and carry out new responsibilities easily by watching other or by following instructions.
- Confident: Believe in and feel good about yourself.
- Pleasant: Nice person for others to talk to and be with.
- Energetic: Lots of energy to use at work and at play.
- Helpful: Enjoy helping people solve their problems.
- Trustworthy: Can be trusted to get the job done, to look after things or keep secrets that are very important to other people.
- Efficient: Perform tasks in the fastest and simplest ways that they can be done.
- Organize: Arrange people/plan events/put things in order so that they run smoothly.
- Delegate: Assign tasks to others to complete.
- Assemble Products: Put things together with your hands.
- Take Instructions: Follow instructions well, ask questions when you do not fully understand instructions.
- Motivate Others: Help keep others' spirits up and encourage them to do their best.
- Service Customers: Be friendly, patient and polite with customers and try your best to service their needs/wants.
- Dependable: Can be counted on to do what you said you would do (i.e. show up for work on time, do your job duties well, etc).
- Flexible: Can carry out many different responsibilities, sometimes with very little advanced notice.
- Self-assured: Feel very confident and positive about yourself and your abilities.
- Supervise: Watch others to make sure that everything is ok and/or that they are doing their jobs well.
- Time Management: Plan your time so that you don't forget to do things, you're almost always/always on time, and you know how to prioritize and give yourself enough time to do the things that you need to do.M
- Trouble-shoot: Figure out what the problem is, why there is a problem, or prevent a problem before it happens.
- Handle Complaints: Deal effectively with complaints made by customers or constructive criticism from your employer.
- Listen: Listen/pay attention to what others are saying, without daydreaming or forming judgement about them.
- Considerate: Always think about how others may feel about things, especially before you say or do things that my affect them.
- Punctual: Always on time for things.
- Loyal: Committed and devoted to things/people that mean a lot to you (i.e. your best friend, your job/supervisor).
- Precise: Make sure that things are done accurately, correctly and exactly.
- Resourceful: Thing of new, creative and different ways to do things when there are no obvious solutions available.
Science Skills and Abilities:
Science Skills and Abilities:
- Acquisitive: skills and abilities of gathering information
- Listening—being attentive, alert, questioning
- Observing—being accurate, alert, systematic
- Searching—locating sources, using several sources, being self-reliant, acquiring library skills and the ability to use computer search programs
- Inquiring—asking, interviewing, corresponding
- Investigating—formulating questions
- Gathering data—tabulating, organizing, classifying, recording
- Researching—locating a problem, learning background, setting up investigations, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
- Organizational: skills and abilities of putting information in systematic order
- Recording—tabulating, charting, working systematically, recording completely
- Comparing—noticing how things are alike, looking for similarities, noticing identical features
- Contrasting—noticing how things differ, looking for dissimilarities, noticing unlike features
- Classifying—identifying groups and categories, deciding between alternatives
- Organizing—putting items in order, establishing a system, filing, labeling, arranging
- Outlining—employing major headings and subheadings, using sequential, logical organization
- Reviewing—identifying important items
- Evaluating—recognizing good and poor features, knowing how to improve grades
- Analyzing—seeing implications and relationships, picking out causes and effects, locating new problems
- Creative: skills and abilities of developing new approaches and new ways of thinking
- Planning ahead—seeing possible results and probable modes of attack, setting up hypotheses
- Designing—identifying new problems
- Inventing—creating a method, device, or technique
- Synthesizing—putting familiar things together in a new arrangement, hybridizing, drawing together
- Manipulative: skills and abilities of handling materials and instruments
- Using an instrument—knowing the instrument’s parts, how it works, how to adjust it, its proper use for a given task, its limitations
- Caring for an instrument—knowing how to store it, using proper settings, keeping it clean, handling it properly, knowing its rate capacity, transporting it safely
- Demonstrating—setting up apparatus, describing parts and functions, illustrating scientific principles
- Experimenting—recognizing a question, planning a procedure, collecting data, recording data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
- Constructing—making simple equipment for demonstrations and investigations
- Calibrating—learning the basic information about calibration, calibrating a thermometer, balance, timer, or other instrument
- Communicative: skills and abilities of transferring information correctly from one experimenter to another
- Asking questions—learning to formulate good questions, to be selective in asking
- Discussing—learning to contribute ideas, listening to ideas of others, keeping on the topic, arriving at conclusions
- Explaning—describing to someone else clearly, clarifying major points, exhibiting patience, being willing to repeat
- Reporting—orally reporting to a class or teacher in capsule form the significant material on a science topic
- Writing—writing a report of an experiment or demonstration; describing the problem, method of attack, data collected, methods of analysis, conclusions drawn, and implications for further work
- Criticizing—constructively criticizing or evaluating a piece of work, a scientific procedure, or conclusion
- Graphing—putting in graphical form the results of a study or experiment, being able to interpret the graph for someone else
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