Assessing Your Skills

Step 3 – Create your personal profile and identify your strengths and weaknesses

Make a table which allows you to build a profile of what skills and characteristics you have- it will highlight those attributes which really made you successful. Once you have fully completed this table, you will have a clear picture of those things that make you excel in your work and those areas which perhaps need some development.

You should now have a clear insight into what your strengths and weaknesses are so list the top and bottom four of each. Review each one individually and prepare a development plan to help you with your weaknesses - this will show any prospective employer that you are proactively managing your own development. A development plan could be as simple as ' I will improve my pc literacy skills by completing the ECDL course by December 2004'