Resume Self-Assessment

Use Resources
1. Time: sets goals, allocates time, prepares & follows schedules.
2. Money: plans ahead for expenses & income, keeps records.
3. Uses materials, supplies, tools & equipment efficiently.
4. Acquires, organizes & communicates information needed to do a task.
Interpersonal: Works With Others
5. Participates as a member of a team: contributes to group efforts.
6. Teaches others new skills.
7. Works to meet the needs of friends, family and community.
8. Exercises leadership: communicates ideas, persuades & convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures & policies.
9. Negotiates: works toward agreements, resolves conflicts.
10. Works with diversity: works with people from diverse backgrounds.
11. Maintains and develops new skills.
Understands Relationships
12. Understands systems: knows how social & organizational groups work; operates effectively with them.
13. Anticipates problems & develops new or alternative methods to solve project or group problems.
Works With a Variety of Technologies
14. Applies technology to task: understands overall intent and proper procedure for setup and operation of equipment, tools & supplies.
15. Maintains and troubleshoots equipment: prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers & other technologies.
Basic Skills
16. Reading: understands and interprets written information.
17. Writing: communicates thoughts, ideas, information, & messages in writing.
18. Arithmetic/Mathematics: performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques.
19. Listening: receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues.
20. Speaking: organizes ideas and communicates orally.
Thinking Skills
21. Creative Thinking: generates new ideas.
22. Decision-Making: specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, evaluates & chooses best alternative.
23. Problem Solving: recognizes problems, devises & implements plan of action.
24. Visualizes Information: organizes and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects.
25. Knowing How to Learn: uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills technologies.
26. Reasoning: discovers the relationships between two or more objects; uses it to solve a problem.
Personal Qualities
27. Responsibility: exerts a high level of effort, commitment and perseveres, follows through towards goal attainment.
28. Self-Esteem: believes in own self-worth & maintains a positive view of self.
29. Social Skills: demonstrates understanding of friendliness, adaptability, empathy, & consideration of others in group settings.
30. Self-Management: assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control.
31. Integrity/Honesty: chooses ethical courses of action.

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