Skill Assessment & Personal Profile
The self-assessment work sheets described here and
included in the Workbooks are
provided to help you inventory your skills, knowledge, abilities,
interests, accomplishments, values, networking contacts, and personal
traits as they have been demonstrated in your day-to-day activities at
work, school, home and in the community. Include all your
talents. Sometimes people take their biggest positives for granted. Have
someone who knows you well review your worksheets to ensure you include
all your positives. When completing these work sheets think about "transferables."
These are skills and abilities that you can take with you to a new
job. They are characteristics you have in which your new employer will
be particularly interested. Several of the profiles have a column
marked L/D. This means (L) Liked or (D) disliked. Check your
preference. You will use this information later on to evaluate your
profiles and to target new jobs.
This section focuses on positives, however you must also
consider negatives. We all have them, things we don't like to do or avoid and
know better. An honest assessment is critical to the task at hand and the entire
concept is based on your desire and ability to cast out undesirable habits and
incorporate new positive approaches, including doing things you don't like to
do, to achieve your goals.
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degrees or certificates can lead to promotions and new opportunities
Before you start compiling your profiles you need to understand the basic
terms that are used throughout this site and in the
Workbooks. These key definitions are
what personnelists use to rate your application and a thorough understanding of
what each means is essential.
Knowledge — An organized body of information, usually of a
factual or procedural nature, which if applied, makes adequate performance
on the job possible.
Complete definitions are included in the
Workbooks and the complete definition for acomplishments,
the first entry, is included
to show you what to expect in the workbook for the remaining definition.
Take Charge of Your Federal Career includes
complete definitions for Assessing your Skills, Experience and Interestsrking. You an
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copy online.
- Accomplishments - Something of value contributed by you
to your job that is of considerable value to the agency but not a normal
part of your job. Typical accomplishments would include things like
developing new procedures or processes, designing and implementing a new
service or program, obtaining specialized licenses and certifications, and
outside activities that enhance your work such as affiliations with
associations such as Toastmasters International.
- Accredited Education
- Competencies
- Competitive Appointment
- Duties
- Education Above the High School Level (or Post High-School Education)
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA's)
- Objectives
- Quality Ranking Factors
- Related Education
- Responsibilities
- Selective Factors
- Series or Occupational Series
- Skill
- Specialized Experience
- Transferable Skills and abilities
The self-assessment work sheets described here and included in the
Workbooks are provided to help you
inventory your skills, knowledge, abilities, interests, accomplishments, values,
networking contacts, and personal traits as they have been demonstrated in your
day-to-day activities at work, school, home and in the community. Several of the
planning forms are available as download Microsoft Word forms that you can use
to start your assessment. I highly recommend that you use our
Workbooks in conjunction with these free
forms to compile a professional and realistic IDP plan and to draft a
professional federal application. You an
order your
copy online. Links to available online forms follow:
Search for Federal, State, and Private Sector Jobs at
www.searchfedjobs.com
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