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Name: _________________

Date:____________

My Skills Hard and Soft Skills


[A] WHAT ARE TRANSFERABLE SKILLS?
Definition: Skills you have acquired during any activity in your life -- jobs, classes, projects,
parenting, hobbies, sports, virtually anything -- that are transferable and applicable in many
different jobs or occupation settings.
Examples of Transferrable Skills:
Communicating
Designing
Planning
Speaking
Innovating
Selling
Problem-solving
Learning
Updating
Imagining
Leading
Achieving
Interpreting
Reasoning
Advising
Proofreading
Sharing

Troubleshooting
Researching
Analyzing
Persuading
Organizing
Prioritizing
Encouraging
Developing
Synthesizing
Visualizing
Supervising
Reporting
Searching
Debating
influencing
Filing
Examining

Testing
Writing
Self-understanding
Understanding
Motivating
Logical Thinking
Teaching
Improving
Creating
Talking
Estimating
Negotiating
Team-building
Decision-making
Performing
Comparing
Reading

[B] FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORLD: Complete the chart below by identifying the
transferable skills youve learned in school and applying them to the outside world.
SUBJECT

Math

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS LEARNED

Calculating, counting,

Science

English

Reading, writing

History

Presenting,

APPLICATION To be used in other aspects of your


life and future career

Name: _________________
Date:____________

Languages

Speaking more language,

Music

Music notes

Art

Drawing techniques

Drama

Acting

Civics

Country(Canada) rules and rights

Business

Money

Computers

Programming, project
presenting

[C] REFLECTION QUESTIONS:


1. What are your strongest skills?
Great at sport, good in math, average in computers and creative thinking
2. How can these skills be used in your ideal job? What are these skills important?
Sport can help in athletic job
Math and computer can be in business.
Creative thinking can be in entertainment.
3. What skills do you need to work on? How can they be improved?
Communicating and writing skills.
I can improve by talking more and reading more
(D) HARD SKILLS & SOFT SKILLS
Select a career of interest to you and fill in each chart with the hard and soft skills
needed to be successful in this career.
Hard skills: knowledge, tools, or techniques that allow us to work successfully in a
given area

Name: _________________
Date:____________

SKILL

RANK (1 = STRENGTH,
10 = WEAKNESS)

Knowledge
Tools
Techniques

5
4
3

OPPORTUNITIES
SCHOOL PROVIDES TO
BUILD THESE SKILLS
Study

Soft skills: the complete collection of our social, communication, and selfmanagement behaviours
SKILL

RANK (1 = STRENGTH,
10 = WEAKNESS)

Social
Communication
Self- management
behaviours

5
6
5

OPPORTUNITIES
SCHOOL PROVIDES TO
BUILD THESE SKILLS
Talking
Talking
Manage time to do
homework

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