Assessing Your Skills
If you have problems with the assessment of your professional skills, then create a simple analytical framework. Take a piece of paper and draw a vertical line, dividing the page into two parts.
On the left side, make a list of skills that are needed for your chosen work. On the right – your own skills, which directly coincide with each of the skills on the left.
You can also create a third category titled “skills to be acquired.” These are skills that you think you need to develop. These skills can be obtained when taking part in different courses, seminars, internships.
You can also try to write a brief biography of skills. Recall the five accomplishments in your life that you are very proud of. Your last client was delighted with your work? You performed some work in the student council? Write about it!
Then read the written. Circle those verbs that you used. These verbs are probably your skills in different areas. Select from this list those skills that you would like to use.
The knowledge of your skills helps to use them.
If you have a clear idea of your professional skills, the whole process of presenting them to a potential employer will be much easier. The presentation may take the form of resume, cover letter or interview.
If you want a deeper insight into the process of assessing your skills, there are other tools. Career consultants use a special questionnaire to help you determine not only the skills you possess, but also those which you will need for a new job.
Your professional skills will help you to change your job successfully. Knowing your skills and comparing them with the requirements of the desired place of work, will give you the opportunity to find the job that you will like; and that’s one of the main principles of career success. 
