Put Your Skills to Work

Your skills are your superpowers – and knowing them is the first step to career growth. Our comprehensive assessment helps you map out your current strengths and identify exciting opportunities for development. With 40 skill areas to explore, you'll gain insights into your professional potential and personalized recommendations.

Rate your skills based on the examples given

Think about whether you have done the example activity, or something like it in your own field.

  1. 1. Administration and Management
    How much do you know about business planning and leadership?
    Complete a timesheet
    Monitor project progress to complete it on time
    Manage a $10m company
  2. 2. Biology
    How much do you know about plant, animal and cell functions?
    Care for a pet
    Investigate effects of pollution on plants
    Identify a new virus
  3. 3. Body Coordination
    How well can you coordinate moving your arms, legs, and torso together?
    Get in and out of a truck
    Swim one pool length, or play a ball sport
    Perform ballet choreography
  4. 4. Building and Construction
    How much do you know about construction materials, methods, and tools?
    Hang a picture
    Fix a plumbing leak in ceiling
    Build a high-rise
  5. 5. Chemistry
    How well do you know chemistry?
    Use a household chemical safely
    Use proper chlorine concentration to purify water source
    Develop a formula for a safe cleaner
  6. 6. Clerical
    How much do you know about administrative tasks and processes?
    File forms
    Type 30 words per minute
    Design an online office-wide storage system
  7. 7. Complex Problem Solving
    How good are you at figuring out the best way to solve a problem?
    Gather tools for a household job
    Redesign a floor plan around new equipment
    Develop a local disaster response plan
  8. 8. Computers and Electronics
    How effective are you at using electronic equipment?
    Open a program on a computer
    Use a word processor
    Create a virus-scanning program
  9. 9. Customer and Personal Service
    How well do you know how to handle customer needs and resolve service problems?
    Process a dry-cleaning order
    Supervise 10 children at a day care
    Plan customer outreach after data privacy breach
  10. 10. Economics and Accounting
    How well do you know banking and financial systems?
    Answer billing questions
    Develop an investment plan for clients
    Oversee a large firm's finances
  11. 11. Fine Arts
    How well do you know the theory and techniques of an art form such as music, painting, drama, or other?
    Attend a concert
    Play a minor part in a local theater play
    Teach the theory of an art form
  12. 12. Foreign Language
    How well do you know a foreign language?
    Say "please" and "thank you"
    Ask directions in a foreign city
    Critique a literary book
  13. 13. Helping People
    How good are you at understanding how to help people?
    Ask clients if they would like coffee
    Make travel arrangements for customers
    Direct relief operations in a disaster area
  14. 14. Instructing
    How skilled are you at teaching people how to do something?
    Show someone how to bowl
    Instruct a coworker in how to operate a software program
    Demonstrate surgery to interns
  15. 15. Management of Financial Resources
    What level of financial decision-maker are you?
    Record office supply purchases
    Prepare and manage a budget for a short-term project
    Oversee yearly budgets for a large firm
  16. 16. Mathematics
    What is your level of math skill?
    Add two large numbers
    Calculate the square footage of a home
    Derive a complex formula
  17. 17. Mechanical
    How well can you design, use, repair, and maintain machines?
    Replace a battery in a smoke detector
    Replace a valve on a steam pipe
    Overhaul a jet engine
  18. 18. Medicine and Dentistry
    How well do you know how to provide health care?
    Treat a cut
    Fill a tooth cavity
    Perform open-heart surgery
  19. 19. Memorization
    How good is your memory?
    Remember your bus number
    Recite the first names of 5 people you just met
    Quickly memorize and recite a complex equation
  20. 20. Monitoring
    How well can you assess your or others’ work?
    Proofread a letter
    Make adjustments to a meeting to ensure key goals are met
    Measure and plan to increase a firm's productivity
  21. 21. Negotiation
    How well do you persuade others to see different points of view or compromise?
    Justify a new work schedule to your manager
    Contract with a wholesaler to sell items at a given cost
    Negotiate a foreign treaty as an ambassador
  22. 22. Operations Analysis
    How well can you analyze needs and requirements, then make a plan that meets them?
    Select a copy machine for the office
    Suggest software changes to make a system more user friendly
    Identify system needs for a new process production plant
  23. 23. Personnel and Human Resources
    How well do you know the principles and procedures for recruiting, hiring, and training employees?
    Fill out a medical claim form
    Interview applicants for a new position
    Design a new HR system for a large firm
  24. 24. Production and Processing
    How well can you oversee manufacturing and distribution processes?
    Repack a computer in original box
    Supervise an appliance assembly line
    Maintain an international distribution center
  25. 25. Programming
    How well can you write computer programs?
    Create an Excel spreadsheet
    Write a statistical program to analyze demographic data
    Write a program to analyze data for probability results
  26. 26. Psychology
    How well do you know the methods of research, assessment, and treatment of human behavior?
    Monitor kids on a playground
    Understand the impact of addiction on human responses
    Treat a person with severe mental illness
  27. 27. Public Safety and Security
    How well do you know the equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies used to promote security operations?
    Follow work safety guidelines
    Inspect a building site for safety violations
    Command a military operation
  28. 28. Quality Control Analysis
    How well can you develop and use testing processes?
    Compare two ways to make a recipe
    Measure new part requisitions for tolerance to specifications
    Plan and run a test for a new computer program
  29. 29. Repairing
    How well can you repair machines or systems using the needed tools?
    Tighten the correct screw to get a door to close properly
    Replace a faulty hydraulic valve
    Repair structural damage after an earthquake
  30. 30. Sales and Marketing
    How well can you perform marketing strategies and tactics?
    Sell cakes at a bake sale
    Call a list of clients to introduce them to a new product line
    Develop a marketing plan for a large firm
  31. 31. Science
    How well can you use scientific rules and methods to solve problems?
    Maintain house plants
    Conduct product tests to ensure safety standards are met
    Analyze aerodynamic systems for aircraft design
  32. 32. Sociology and Anthropology
    How well do you know the theories of group behavior, societal trends and influences, and human culture?
    Identify two different cultures
    Write an article about cultural differences
    Create a new theory of civilization's development
  33. 33. Speaking
    How well do you convey information when you speak?
    Greet customers
    Interview applicants to obtain personal and work history
    Argue a legal case before the Supreme Court
  34. 34. Systems Analysis
    How well can you analyze systems?
    Manage work with a missing teammate
    Determine how new equipment will affect production rates
    Identify impact of tax changes across industries
  35. 35. Teaching and Course Design
    How well do you know the principles and methods of instruction?
    Teach workers how to use a time clock
    Lead a quality improvement seminar
    Design a training program for new employees
  36. 36. Telecommunications
    How well do you understand telecom systems?
    Use a business phone
    Install a satellite TV dish
    Develop a worldwide telecom network
  37. 37. Therapy and Counseling
    How well do you know the principles and methods used in counseling?
    Offer sympathy to a stranger
    Provide job counseling to the unemployed
    Supervise experienced therapists
  38. 38. Time Management
    How well do you manage your and others' time?
    Keep a monthly appointment calendar
    Allocate staff time to projects for the coming week
    Allocate scientists’ time to multiple multi-stage projects
  39. 39. Troubleshooting
    How well can you identify and fix problems in machines or technology?
    Identify source of leak on outside of machine
    Identify the circuit causing an electrical system to fail
    Oversee code debugging for new operating system
  40. 40. Writing
    How well does your writing effectively communicate to an audience's particular need?
    Take a telephone message
    Write a memo to staff outlining new directives
    Write a technical manual