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Imagine that you have polished your resume, prepared well for the interview and showed your best side. And when you finally received a job offer, you realized that you were not satisfied with it at all, although you had clarified everything possible with a potential employer in advance. And now you doubt whether you are looking for a job in the right direction at all, whether the industry and the position you are applying for are suitable for you in principle. To find answers to these questions, 10 basic skill sets that relate to different specialties will help.
Thanks to the skills from this set, a person masterfully formulates his thoughts both in writing and orally. These skills are needed by speakers, writers, content strategists, editors and other people working in the field of communications.
It drives people who strive to create cutting-edge innovations that change the current state of affairs. These can be entrepreneurs who independently work on their own product, or "internal entrepreneurs" who take responsibility for the introduction of new ideas in the company.
Those with such skills use their mental abilities to build something. Both literally, for example, builders, and figuratively, for example, web developers who "build" blocks of code and programs.
People with this skill set like to fix existing ones and create new technologies. In general, everything related to various technologies is of great importance to them.
It distinguishes those who like to move during the day and work on their feet. These are athletes, coaches, guides, flight attendants and other "people of the movement".
This set of skills is typical for those who want to help others. People with these skills become social workers, teachers and customer support staff, as well as work in the service and hospitality sector.
It includes skills that allow you to understand the details and complete tasks. Such a set is usually possessed by office managers, project managers, event management specialists, logistics specialists and all those who hold administrative positions.
People with a similar set of skills are great at sorting out and analyzing information, and are also able to find answers to important questions in order to achieve the desired result. These are doctors, lawyers, data analysis specialists and research scientists.
Those who possess it see a clear meaning in numbers and numbers. And the best job for them, as a rule, is working with money. These are bankers, accountants, financial analysts. People with a numerical skill set often also have an analytical one.
People with such a set of skills want to turn the world around them into a work of art. For example, artists, photographers, graphic designers and representatives of other creative professions.
Family members, friends and colleagues you trust can tell you exactly what you are doing great. At the same time, you should not take their words as a signal to action. Someone else's opinion can cloud your own idea of what you want.
In the end, you need to understand what is behind the words of others, and determine the ideal direction for career development yourself. Therefore, ask your loved ones in which personal and professional situations you show yourself best, but accept their answers with some skepticism.
This practice of self-knowledge consists in recording in your diary every day for a month activities and moments when you feel joy and satisfaction. After the deadline, you need to re-read the entries and find patterns that will help determine the main set of skills for the job.
Review your resume and pay attention to the patterns associated with what you liked to do the most and what worked best. This may indicate which skill set is closest to you.
Use your skill set as a guideline when looking for a new job. Usually we start from the description of the position to understand whether we are suitable for it or not. Try to reverse this scenario: first identify your strengths, and then look for a vacancy that matches them. Several skill sets may be close to you at once, but there is always the most important one among them — rely on it.
It is also important to take into account that different sets of skills may be in demand at the same job. Let's take psychologists. Someone uses a verbal set of skills more to effectively talk to clients, and someone more often relies on an analytical one to find the root of the problem. And each of them can be successful in the profession.
If you are happy with where you work, but feel that a position in another department is more in line with your key skill set, talk to management about a transfer.
If it is impossible to move to another department, create a job that suits you yourself — take the initiative and come up with projects that involve your core set. This way you will develop your abilities, even if you are not working at all in your "genius zone".
