Skills
This list of skills is produced by the U.S. Department of Labor and can be located at http://online.onetcenter.org/.
Basic Skills: Help with learning and rapidly acquiring more knowledge
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
- Active Listening: Listening to what other people are saying and asking questions as appropriate
- Writing: Communicating effectively with others in writing as indicated by the needs of the audience
- Speaking: Talking to others to effectively convey information
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems
- Science: Using scientific methods to solve problems
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches
- Active Learning: Working with new material or information to grasp its implications
- Learning Strategies: Using multiple approaches when learning or teaching new things
- Monitoring: Assessing how well one is doing when learning or doing something
Social Skills: Use to work with people to achieve goals.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react the way they do
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
- Persuasion: Persuading others to approach things differently
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people
Complex Problem Solving Skills: Use to solve problems in real world settings.
- Problem Identification: Identifying the nature of problems
- Information Gathering: Knowing how to find information and identifying essential information
- Information Organization: Finding ways to structure or classify multiple pieces of information
- Synthesis/Reorganization: Reorganizing information to get a better approach to problems or tasks
- Idea Generation: Generating a number of different approaches to problems
- Idea Evaluation: Evaluating the likely success of an idea in relation to the demands of the situation
- Implementation Planning: Developing approaches for implementing an idea
- Solution Appraisal: Observing and evaluating the outcomes of a problem solution to identify lessons learned or redirect efforts
Technical Skills: Use to design, set-up, operate, and correct problems with machines and technological systems.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes
- Testing: Conducting tests to determine whether equipment, software, or procedures are operating as expected
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems
- Product Inspection: Inspecting and evaluating the quality of products
- Equipment Maintenance:Performing routine maintenance and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed
- Troubleshooting: Determining what is causing an operating error and deciding what to do about it
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools
Systems Skills: Use to understand, monitor, and improve organizations and systems.
- Visioning: Developing an image of how a system should work under ideal conditions
- Systems Perception: Determining when important changes have occurred in a system or are likely to occur
- Identifying Downstream Consequences: Determining the long-term outcomes of a change in operations
- Identification of Key Causes: Identifying the things that must be changed to achieve a goal
- Judgment and Decision Making: Weighing the relative costs and benefits of a potential action
- Systems Evaluation: Looking at many indicators of system performance, taking into account their accuracy
Resource Management Skills: Use to allocate resources efficiently.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials to do certain work
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job
