Identifying Your Specific Skills

You should find it relatively easy to identify your specific skills.

Specific, or technical skills are those that are concrete, or objective. They tend to be specific to a certain profession or job (for example, programming a computer, administering an injection or editing a document using appropriate symbols and terminology), but they can also be applied more widely (speaking a language, being able to draw a map).

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Using your experiential diary, identify the points in your history where you learned how to do something very specific, and decide whether you have a beginning, intermediate, or advanced knowledge of how to use that particular skill. Be sure to list every specific skill you have, irrespective of whether you like using the skill.