Use the following survey to create your Elevator Pitch:
IDENTIFY YOUR SKILLS
Review the list of skills and identify whether:
- You have gained that skill in your unpaid and paid work experience(s)
- You perform that skill at a high level of proficiency
- It is a skill you enjoy using
Organizing and Planning
Identify alternative courses of action
Set realistic goals
Predict future trends and patterns
Accommodate multiple demands for commitment of time, energy and resources
Assess needs
Set priorities
Work under time and environmental pressures
Classify, record, file, or retrieve
Informational Management
Apply information creatively to specific problems or tasks
Synthesize facts, concepts, and principles
Evaluate information against appropriate standards
Organize, tabulate or compare data
Sales
Promote a product or idea
Influence and motivate others
Communication
Use various forms and styles of written communication
Speak clearly and effectively to individuals and groups
Use media formats to present ideas imaginatively
Understand the importance of body language and eye contact
Edit the work of others
Define, translate, interpret, explain
Interview others
Adapt speaking style and media to audience to achieve desired results
Computer and Technology
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint
Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML
Programming: .NET, VB.NET, C#, JAVA, PERL
Databases: AS400, Crystal Reports, Oracle, PL/SQL, Sybase
Social networking – posting & analytics
Help Desk
Interpersonal
Inspire others toward the achievement of a common goal
Foster group cooperation and support
Delegate tasks and responsibilities with clear goals
Interact effectively with colleagues and supervisors
Develop rapport and trust
Provide information with tact/discretion
Cooperate and participate in a team
Counsel, advise or give feedback
Provide care
Research and Investigation
Design an experiment, plan, or model that systematically defines a problem
Identify information sources appropriate to special needs or problems
Formulate questions relevant to clarify a particular problem, topic or issue
Instructional
Teach a skill, concept or principles to others
Facilitate group discussions
Design educational materials
Explain and illustrate through examples
Mentor/coach
Creative and Artistic
Invent, improvise, or experiment
Synthesize, integrate ideas
Design, illustrate, draw, draft
Compose or author
Perform or act
Create innovative solutions to complex problems
Management and Administrative
Identify people who can contribute to solution or task
Identify resource materials useful in the solution of a problem
Organize people and tasks to achieve specific goals
Show consistency in problem-solving and root cause analysis
Guide, inspire, motivate, and lead others
Budget
Approve and validate information
Represent a group to others
Critical Thinking
Identify critical issues quickly and accurately when making decisions and solving issues
Identify a general principle that explains interrelated experiences or factual data
Clarify problems or situations
Evaluate and critique
Identify reasonable criteria for assessing the value or appropriateness of an action or behavior
Adapt to changing conventions and norms
Apply appropriate criteria to strategies and action plans
Technical
Follow detailed instructions
Design, mold, shape
Build, construct, assemble, install
Repair, maintain, troubleshoot
Estimate, assess, appraise, screen
Experiment, pilot or test
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