Professional Skills
Identify and communicate the many skills that you have developed throughout your life, and communicate their transferability and utility.
Professional Skills
Identify and leverage your skills
You have developed numerous skills throughout your education, work, and personal life, many of which are highly transferrable across industries. Identifying and communicating these skills can help you become more confident and marketable.
Keep Reading to Learn:
- Categories of high impact skills
- to identify the skills you have developed and utilized
- to communicate these skills to others and put them to use
- Check out this resource to learn more about the core career competencies that St. Thomas teaches students.
| Creativity Critical Thinking Data and metrics interpreting Data engineering Data mining Data presentation Database management Diagnostics Forecasting Reporting Research Resource management Theorizing |
| Accounting Budgeting Business knowledge Competitive analysis Event Planning Finance Hiring Logistics Negotiating New business development Office management Planning Project management Sales |
| Active Listening Clarity Confidence Diplomacy Empathy Interviewing Negotiation Networking Personal Branding Persuasion Presentation Skills Public Speaking Storytelling Verbal communication Visual communication Written communication |
| CMS Database Management Enterprise systems Google Drive Graphics HTML MS Office Presentations/Slideshows QuickBooks Social media Spreadsheets |
| Acrobat Color theory Corel Draw Data visualization Free Hand HTML/CSS Illustrator InDesign Layout Photoshop Print design Sketching Typography UX research UX/UI design |
| Agility Adaptability Authenticity Coaching Conflict or Dispute Resolution Cultural Intelligence Culture building Deal-Making Decision-Making Delegation Facilitating Generosity Giving Clear Feedback Humility Managing Difficult Conversations Meeting Management Mentoring People Management Prioritization Project Management Remote Team Management Selflessness Strategic Planning Supervising Talent Management Team-Building Versatility |
| Analytics Campaign management Content creation CRO and A/B testing Data visualization Data-driven marketing Email marketing and automation Event Planning Funnel management Google Analytics and Google Search Console HubSpot, Aritic PinPoint, ONTRAPORT, Infusionsoft, Salesforce Omnichannel communication SEO/SEM Social media marketing and paid social media advertising Storytelling UX Design Writing |
| Canva Communication Data analysis Graphic design Persuasion Presentation / Deck creation PowerPoint Public speaking Reporting Research Visual communication |
| Analysis Brainstorming Creativity Design Sense Divergent Thinking Innovation Lateral Thinking Logical Reasoning Mind Mapping Observation Persistence Questioning Reframing Troubleshooting |
| Java PHP MySQL SQL C# JavaScript C++ Python iOS/Swift Ruby on Rails SQL |
| Agile software Budgeting Event Planning Financial modeling Forecasting Kanban Performance tracking Project lifecycle management Project scheduling Scrum management Strategic planning |
| Accept Feedback Adaptability Collaborative Cooperation Coordination Deal with Difficult Situations Disability Awareness Diversity Awareness Emotional Intelligence Idea Exchange Influential Intercultural Competence Mediation Office Politics Management Personality Conflicts Management Respectfulness Sales Skills Self-Awareness Social Skills Relationship building |
| Allocating Resources Focus Goal-Setting Optimization Organization Personal Time Management Planning Prioritization Process Improvement Scheduling Sense of Urgency Streamlining Stress Management Task Planning Task Tracking Time Awareness Work-Life Balance |
| Commitment Competitiveness Curiosity Discipline Emotion Management Independence Initiative Integrity Open-Minded Organization Professional Punctual Reliable Resilient Responsible Results-Oriented Taking Criticism Tolerance of Change and Uncertainty Trainable |
| Academic writing Business reports Content management Copywriting Creative writing (plotting, worldbuilding, dialogue) Editing Grant writing Journalism Presentation writing Press releases Proposal writing Social media Storytelling |
| Automated Billing Systems CAD CRM Platforms Lean manufacturing Linear regression Multivariate analysis Payment processing Prototyping Research STEM skills Troubleshooting Web: HTML, CSS, Javascript Workflow development |
Next Steps
- Identify your top 10 skills
- Reflect on:
- How much do you enjoy using each skill?
- How good are you at each skill?
- How transferrable is each skill?