1. Your Skills and Aptitudes
Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes

2. How skills and aptitudes differ What your skills and aptitudes are
Discover
How skills and aptitudes differ
What your skills and aptitudes are
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3. Where your skills and attitudes might lead you
Discover
Where your skills and attitudes might lead you

4. Your skills and aptitudes are clues to what you can do.
Why It’s Important
Your skills and aptitudes are clues to what you can do.
They can point you toward different careers.

5. skill ability aptitude job-specific skills transferable skills
Key Terms
skill
ability
aptitude
job-specific skills
transferable skills

6. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
A skill is the ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
Once you have learned something, it becomes a skill.

7. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
An ability is a skill you have already developed.
An aptitude is your potential for learning a skill.

8. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
Having an aptitude is having a knack for something, like drawing or training pets.
Aptitudes can be developed into skills.

9. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Job-specific skills are the skills necessary to do a particular job, like balancing a budget or programming a computer.

10. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.
Transferable skills are always necessary.

11. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Employers always want workers to have both job-specific skills and general transferable skills.

12. Graphic Organizer Transferable Workplace Skills Communication Skills
Adaptability
Skills
Transferable
Skills
Listening Skills
Social Skills
Problem-Solving
Skills
Teamwork
Skills
Technology
Skills
Organizing and
Planning Skills
Decision-Making
Skills

13. I know exactly what job I want.
Q and A
I know exactly what job I want.
Why should I waste time developing skills that don’t seem related to this job?
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14. Most jobs require workers to have many skills.
Q and A
Most jobs require workers to have many skills.
A variety of skills is necessary for succeeding and advancing in a job.

15. Complete a formal career interest and aptitude assessment.
Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Complete a formal career interest and aptitude assessment.
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16. Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Match Interests and Aptitudes to Opportunities Once you’ve completed your self assessment, write down several career opportunities that match your interests and aptitudes.
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17. Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Get Feedback Show your list of aptitudes, interests, and potential careers to a friend, a family member, a teacher, or someone else you trust.
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18. Try This Activity
Assess Your Career
Interests and Aptitudes
Develop Your Skills Select the career from your list that interests you most and consider what skills you would need to achieve that career.

19. Critical Thinking Review
Should you focus on developing skills related to your aptitudes?
It is easier to develop skills for which you already have an aptitude. However, you should work to develop skills that you want to master, even if you don’t have an aptitude.
Critical Thinking Q A
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20. Critical Thinking Review
Why is it important to develop skills in more than one area?
More job opportunities will be open to those with more skills.
Critical Thinking Q A

21. Your Skills and Aptitudes
End of Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes