Skills Audit A Skills Audit helps you consider your strengths and areas for development. If you’ve rated yourself as confident or really confident in a particular skill, that’s great but you will need to prove this to future employers by giving specific examples/evidence. You can download your own full copy of the Skills Audit to complete yourself.
Skills Audit example: Key professional skills How competent am I for employability (not an in this skill? exhaustive list…)
This Skills Audit was based on the CV ‘Des Student’ found in CV and Cover Letters pg 18)
Negotiation
Adequate
Team work
Excellent
Problem-solving
Commercial awareness
8
What specific examples/evidence do I have that proves this? Was able to resolve a dispute about workloads in my group design project to everyone’s satisfaction. Led the discussion about timings and amount of work to complete, based on prior knowledge and difficulty. Successfully completed the Duke of Edinburgh Award outdoor activities as a team overcoming illness to complete the hike together.
Adequate
Had to spend significant amount of time trying to understand why my prototype was not successful – could have saved time by asking a friend but wanted to try to solve it myself.
Limited knowledge
Have undertaken some paid work but not at graduate level. Think I might need to find out more about what is happening in industry in my chosen career path.
