Assessing Your
Skills
Job-hunting begins
with an assessment. You have to know what type of job you want before you can
find it. And you have to assess yourself and your situation to know what job
you want.
It is like an
inventory that a business takes. You see what you have, what you need, what
works and what does not. You examine your skills, knowledge, abilities,
interests, needs and character.
Self-assessment
can be done in many ways. You can take formal tests or use computer programs
that match your qualifications with specific jobs. See below.
Next, create your
résumé to assess your history; list your achievements, experience and
education; and to compile evidence or examples of each. This process will help
you better understand the type of work you can do best. In addition, you will
get a head start on preparing for future interviews.
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JobsPlus One-Stop Career Centers offers
products to help you do your career self assessment. Here are a few examples: Career Scope exploration
software program that offers a wealth of specific occupational and
educational information. It also provides a number of assessments that allow
you to view occupations that match your interests and skills. Prove It! a full range of quality assessments with hundreds
of tests for clerical, software, industrial, healthcare, financial and
technical job classifications. For more
information contact your PPN Coordinator at |