Understanding your skills

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July 31, 2024

Identifying and understanding your skills is essential for personal and professional success. It provides a foundation for self-awareness, career planning, goal setting, effective communication, continuous learning, confidence building, and adaptability. Also, it provides a clearer understanding of what you excel at and what you can bring to a potential career. 

What are skills? They are the abilities and knowledge that you have acquired throughout your life. These can include work experience (paid and voluntary), membership of societies/clubs, serving on committees, governing bodies, involvement in a professional body or professional groups, training courses (eg management, leadership, team development) and participating in/organising activities in the local community. There can be two types of them: both hard skills, such as technical abilities or certifications, and soft skills, such as communication or leadership skills 

Key tasks for understanding your skills 

The key tasks involved in identifying your skill set involve self-reflection, feedback from others, and objective assessment. 

Self-reflection 

Self-awareness is imperative to recognize your skill set. It provides the insight and clarity needed to assess your strengths and weaknesses accurately, align your skills with your career goals, communicate effectively with others, and pursue opportunities for personal and professional growth. 

Start by asking yourself a series of questions, such as: 

  • What are my core values? 
  • What motivates and inspires me? 
  • What are my long-term goals? 
  • What are my strengths and weaknesses? 
  • What kind of work environment do I thrive in? 

Self-reflection can also help you identify your values, motivations, and long-term goals, which are all important factors to consider when choosing a career. 

Feedback from others 

Ask for feedback from others to share their observations about your skills. They may have insights that you haven’t considered or may be able to provide examples of situations where you demonstrated particular skills. This can be invaluable in gaining a well-rounded understanding of your abilities. 

Objective assessment 

Consider taking skill assessment tests or quizzes.  These often provide detailed reports and recommendations based on your results, giving you further insights into your strengths and areas for improvement. 

After understanding your skills, develop a plan 

Once you’ve identified your skills and their gaps, create a plan to address them. This may involve taking courses, attending workshops or seminars, seeking mentorship, or gaining hands-on experience through projects or internships. Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for acquiring the necessary skills.  

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COMPASS: The Exhibition by Ademola Falomo. The Closing Party.

Come experience COMPASS: The Exhibition, an art showcase by filmmaker and artist Ademola Falomo that breaks boundaries. At its core, ´COMPASS´ tells a universal story that has captured hearts worldwide. This exhibition is a tribute to the quest of finding serenity, amidst chaos.

Don´t miss out on the last chance to enjoy COMPASS photographies, short-films and to talk to the artist about it´s creation.

Clic here to join the event.

08.02.2024

Social impact, obligation or commitment?: Beyond words, real cases that are leading the change in technological innovation with impact.

We start 2024 with a new series of “round tables”!

On this occasion we invite you to a debate about social impact.

At Cliclab, we want to deepen and debate the importance of our activities, and how we transform ideas, projects, companies around the impact they generate on society. We will also talk about the sustainability of that impact through the environment, the economy, and the social sphere.

Likewise, we want to promote connections between sectors, origins, jobs, etc. Therefore, the round table will be followed by a networking cocktail.

The event will take place on February 8 at 6:30 p.m. at our headquarters
(Carrer Llibertat, 11).