Skills Audit

This Skills Audit was based on the CV ‘Des Student’ found in CV and Cover Letters pg 18)

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 for employability (not an exhaustive list…) How competent am I in this skill?

Negotiation

Adequate 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.

Team work

Excellent Successfully completed the Duke of Edinburgh Award outdoor activities as a team overcoming illness to complete the hike together.

What specific examples/evidence do I have that proves this?

Problem-solving Adequate

Commercial awareness Limited knowledge 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. 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.