Skills Inventory
- Office Skills: Filing, Answering Phones, Customer Service, Telemarketing, Sales, Bookkeeping, Typing 60wpm, Receptionist Duties
- Computer Skills: Desktop Publishing, Web site development, Programming
- Software: MS Word, MS Publisher, MS Front Page, Lotus
- Office Equipment: Typewriter, Computer, Cash Register
- Additional Skills: Accurate typist and proofreader, great spelling skills, quick learner
Take a few days to think about all the experience and skills you have had over the years. Add as much detail and information as possible to the list.
(The example above is not a complete example. Include education, personal experience and volunteer work. Yours should be much more detailed.
3) Life Skills Inventory Your next inventory sheet should include all of the day to day skills you have. You want to write down those that you are great at and those that could use some additional work:
Great
- Very creative, can usually find creative solutions to problems that arise.
- Life of the party
- Good in small gatherings
- Work well on my own
- Work well in small groups
- Love to give and organize parties
- Willingly make sacrifices for something I really want
Could Use Some Work
- Getting up and to work on time
- Intimidated by large crowds
- Forgetful
- Disorganized
- Sometimes work very slow to make sure it is done right
Decide which of these items you are willing to work to change and which are not changeable. Don’t accept a position where success would depend on an item that you have not yet strengthened.
4) Make an inventory of what you have liked best about previous positions that you held.
- Flexible Hours
- Lots of contact with the public
- Worked without much supervision
- Allowed creativity to come through
- Received sense of accomplishment at completion of project
- Boss gave credit for jobs well done
- Deadlines forced me to complete work on time
Put a star next to the items you really liked.
5) Make an inventory of what you did not like in previous positions:
- Did not get along with boss
- Got talked to about lack of organization
- Panic of upcoming deadlines caused me to miss the deadlines
- Tedious and boring
- Too unstructured
- Too many people around
