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This activity will help you understand your skills, how confident you feel using them, and which skills you would like to develop/learn. This self-awareness will help you identify your strengths, find examples of when you have used these skills, and recognise which skills you enjoy using the most. Feeling confident in identifying these things will help you clearly communicate your skills to a future employer, and help you find role that will suit your skillset.
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This activity will allow you to evaluate which skills are your strengths and which need developing. You can use this evaluation to understand what kind of role in the future will suit you best and which skills you want to focus on developing during the rest of your employability journey. You can come back to this activity throughout your journey to see your development and how your strengths make you valuable to a future employer.
Look through the Sheffield Graduate Attributes or complete the Identifying My Skills activity to decide on a list of 5 skills you feel comfortable and confident using. Once you have your 5 skills, answer the questions below for each one:
What is the skill?
When have you used this skill?
What does it mean to be good at this skill?
Why do you feel confident using this skill?
How might this be valuable in a future job?
Can you identify a specific role where this skill might be essential?
Write a short summary of your answers to these questions - imagine you are in an interview and have been asked when you have used this skill.
Write down a specific example of when you have used this skill using the STAR technique. Use the STAR Guide if you want to see an example. You can now add this to your mySkills profile.
Now you have your 5 examples of skills you feel confident with, create a list of 3 skills you do not feel confident using. Once you have your 3 skills, answer these questions:
Now you have your 5 examples of skills you feel confident with, create a list of 3 skills you do not feel confident using. Once you have your 3 skills, answer these questions:
What are the skills you don't feel confident using?
Why do you not feel confident using these skills
Have you used the skills before?
What could you do to feel more confident with these skills?
What support could you access to help you feel more confident with these skills?
Using the How to Gain Experience Guide, which of these options could help you use this skill?
Why might these skills be valuable in a future job?
Could you see yourself getting more confident using these skills in the future?
Write a short summary of your answers to these questions - you can use this to evaluate whether these skills are ones you are going to focus on developing and how you might plan to develop them.
By completing this activity, you will have used these SGAs:
Growth Mindset
Positive Mindset
Defining Purpose
Self-awareness
Adaptable
Communication
Integrity
Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
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