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ITPM Tutorial Week 3 Worksheet

This document provides a career services resource for assessing personal transferable skills. It contains a list of over 50 skills organized under categories like "life long learning", "work autonomously & collaboratively", "communicate effectively", "problem solving", and "commitment to ethical action". For each skill, the user rates themselves as good, fair, or needing improvement. The purpose is to help individuals determine which skills they are strong in and which could be further developed to benefit their career.
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ITPM Tutorial Week 3 Worksheet

This document provides a career services resource for assessing personal transferable skills. It contains a list of over 50 skills organized under categories like "life long learning", "work autonomously & collaboratively", "communicate effectively", "problem solving", and "commitment to ethical action". For each skill, the user rates themselves as good, fair, or needing improvement. The purpose is to help individuals determine which skills they are strong in and which could be further developed to benefit their career.
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Career Services Resource

Personal transferable skills


Use this exercise to determine which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.

Life long learning


Employers may refer to this skill as:
An understanding of continuous improvement
processes
A focus on delivering quality results
Ability to learn new skills
Flexibility to adapt to changes as required by the role

Locate, evaluate, and manage information

Demonstrated ability to understand and operate


in complex organisations
Ability to identify business opportunities
An interest in clients and a desire to help them

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Evaluate own current knowledge


Self-awareness- understand personal strengths and
weaknesses

Employers may refer to this skill as:


Ability to work successfully both independently
and as a member of a team.
A commitment to developing and maintaining
team work
The ability to work both in a multidisciplinary team
environment and independently
Work in a self directed way

Ability to meet responsibilities independently


Ability to plan and execute experimental research
independently
Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse team
structure to reach the most favourable outcome
Ability to work with minimal supervision
Strong leadership skills

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Work cooperatively and constructively

Provide leadership within a team context

Respond confidently to change

Be willing to learn from others

Be flexible and adaptable


Maintain a positive concept of self as capable and
autonomous

Work autonomously & collaboratively

Work collaboratively with different groups

Negotiate solutions when opinions differ

Be a critical thinker

Recognise strengths of other team members

Adapt concepts, skills and materials to new situations

Share responsibility

Recognise when there is a need for change

Identify personal goals and methods to achieve them

Identify the needs of others and build positive


relationships
Constructive criticism

Develop and maintain self esteem

Manage others

Develop and maintain self confidence

Motivate others

Manage stress

Assess and evaluate others

Recognise and manage personal/professional


boundaries

Be assertive
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Career Services Resource

Personal transferable skills


Use this exercise to indicate which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.

Communicate effectively
Employers may refer to this skill as:
Well-developed written and oral communication
skills
Assisting advisors in liaising with clients
An excellent telephone manner and good
interpersonal skills
Present information and ideas in effective written
form- appropriate to the purpose/reader
Communicate orally in large or small groups

Active listening
Express ideas, feelings, opinions, decisions
clearly
Ability to network

Mathematical

Visual

Give and receive feedback

Ability to empathise

Ability to be open and honest

Ability to explain ideas

Ability to communicate in another language

The ability to think conceptually, to visualise


customer requirements for translation into
specifications and designs
Ability to liaise with community groups,
health related professionals, government
departments and agencies at all levels.
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Problem solving
Employers may refer to this skill as:
High-level conceptual, analytical and problem
solving skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver a timely service
to customers
Work under pressure

Work to tight deadlines and defined budgets


Ability to organise and prioritise workloads
Experience in collecting, organising and presenting
information using the Internet
Initiative
Attention to detail

Gather, evaluate and deploy relevant


information (data, values, issues)

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Define researchable questions

Make effective use of information

Observe and record

Formulate and test hypotheses

Evaluate evidence

Make effective decisions

Apply judgement and discrimination

Have a capacity to improvise


Ability to transfer and apply ideas and concepts
to different situations
Anticipating potential problems

Ability to think laterally

Display sensitivity to an audience when


organising and presenting ideas
Communicate appropriately with professional
colleagues and the public

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Being able to view things from all perspectives

Building on the ideas of others

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Career Services Resource

Personal transferable skills


Use this exercise to indicate which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.

Commitment to ethical action

Demonstrate international perspectives

Employers may refer to this skill as:


Commitment towards environmental principles
Committed focus on safety
ability to maintain confidentiality
A commitment to promote the organisation in the
community (particularly in the context of
fundraising activities)

Employers may refer to this skill as:


Working with people from diverse value systems,
cultural backgrounds and special needs
An ability to relate to people from diverse
backgrounds and cultures

Demonstrate responsibility to the community

Commitment to personal ethical actions

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Needs
improving

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Needs
improving

Display an ability to think globally and


consider issues from a variety of perspectives
Awareness of own culture and its
perspectives
Awareness of other cultures and their
perspectives
Appreciate the importance of multicultural
diversity
Appreciate the complex and interacting
factors that contribute to notions of culture
and cultural relationships
Value diversity of language and culture

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NOTE: This activity has been sourced from Your Career & published by Graduate Careers Australia 2005

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