You have to have skills to get the job done. It seems like a lot of job hunting is telling a company which skills you have so they will hire you. But in order to be able to tell the employer about yourself, you first have to learn about yourself.

General Questions

Ask yourself these questions:

1. What are five of your accomplishments?
2. What are five special skills you have?
3. How have you used these skills?
4. What are some lessons you have learned in life?
5. What are five strengths?
6. How do you use these strengths?
7. What are five weaknesses?
8. How do you overcome these weaknesses?
9. What is your educational background?
10. How does this background relate to this position?
11. What jobs have you had?
12. What are your career goals?
13. How do these goals relate to the position you want to get?
14. What is your ideal work environment?
15. Why do you want this job?

2 Steps to Identifying Your Skills:

1. Describe all of the tasks and activities you do (sports, games, school, clubs, etc.).
2. Now, go back and read your description. What skills are needed to do those jobs?

Your description might include words like:

choir, band, shopping at the mall, baseball, social studies, cutting the grass and babysitting.

Your skills might look like this:

follow directions

coordinate efforts with others

teamwork

independent exploration

keeping track of time

remembering where things are located (stores, where the car is parked, etc).

advertising with flyers and word-of-mouth

collecting money

being prepared for emergency situations