Office of Career Development

Skills Assessment

Identifying your skills is an integral piece of the career development process.  Each career or job is going to require a set of skills needed to be successful.  By identifying your skills and personal qualities you will be able to:

  • Articulate the skills you posses when interviewing, writing resumes, etc
  • Be more effective in identifying careers that would be a good fit for your skills set
  • Gain perspective on the skills you would like to further develop.

Skills Assessment Tools

Taking time to write out your Skills Story is a useful tool for identifing and appreciating your skills.  Click here to download the Skills Story

You are developing many transferable skills as a student at PLU.  Click here to see how what you do as a student translates into the workplace.

woisComplete the online WOIS Skills Assessment. Contact Career Development for login information.  Then check out WOIS online tools for matching your skills to an occupation.