Job Skills Checklist

• Organization: You take pride in your work and in your work space.
• Attention to detail: You strive for perfection and can simultaneously see the big picture
and smallest aspect of a project.
o Example: In my current position working as a student manager for the WSU
men’s basketball team, paying attention to detail is a major factor for us. We are
constantly taking directions for our boss and we must know exactly what we are
doing, because if we don’t, the coaches get upset with my boss and that reflects
poorly on us.
• Communication: You are an exceptionally clear communicator who can write and speak
with confidence.
o Example: Communication is another key factor in being a student manager,
especially because we are told what to wear each day and have specific
responsibilities for each practice and game. We must communicate this with our
boss when we will be arriving or when we are finished with our jobs so that he
knows that we are taking care of our responsibilities and does not have to worry
about us when he already has plenty of other things to worry about.
• Learning quickly: We don’t expect you to know everything, but we do expect you to be
a quick and perspective learner.
o One of the first things my boss told me when I got the student manager position
was to “figure it out”. In essence, he wants us to learn without having to ask him
several questions that we could probably figure out without constantly bugging
him. This job is not too challenging, but you have to be able to go with the flow
and understand what is going on at all times so that you don’t fall behind, which
causes the team to have to wait on you to figure it out.
• Self-reliance: You have a knack for figuring things out and require minimal oversight to
see a project through to its end.
• Entrepreneurial spirit: You are goal orientated, ambitious and creative, and you are
excited about the idea of helping us to build something meaningful.
• A People Person: You are energized by the people around you; you are approachable,
friendly, and easy to talk to
administering programs planning updating files
agendas/meetings

advising people planning setting up demonstrations

organizational
needs

analyzing data predicting futures sketching charts or

diagrams

assembling apparatus rehabilitating people writing reports

auditing financial reports organizing tasks writing for publication

budgeting expenses prioritizing work expressing feelings

calculating numerical data creating new ideas checking for accuracy

finding information meeting people classifying records

handling complaints evaluating coaching individuals

programs

handling detail work editing work collecting money

imagining new solutions tolerating compiling statistics

interruptions

interpreting languages confronting other inventing new ideas

people
dispensing information constructing proposing ideas
buildings

adapting new procedures coping with investigating problems

deadlines

negotiating/arbitrating promoting events locating missing information

conflicts

speaking to the public raising funds dramatizing ideas

writing questioning others estimating physical space

letters/papers/proposals

reading volumes of material being thorough organizing files

remembering information coordinating managing people

schedules/times

interviewing prospective running meetings selling products

employees

listening to others supervising teaching/instructing/training

employees individuals

relating to the public enduring long hours inspecting physical objects

entertaining people displaying artistic distributing products

ideas

deciding uses of money managing an delegating responsibility

organization
measuring boundaries serving individuals mediating between people

counseling/consulting people motivating others persuading others

operating equipment reporting summarizing information

information

supporting others encouraging others delegating responsibilities

determining a problem defining a problem comparing results

screening telephone calls maintaining drafting reports

accurate records

collaborating ideas administering comprehending ideas

medication

overseeing operations motivating others generating accounts

teaching/instructing/training thinking in a logical making decisions

individuals manner

becoming actively involved defining resolving conflicts

performance
standards

analyzing problems recommending selling ideas

courses of action

preparing written expressing ideas conducting interviews

communications orally to individuals
or groups
performing numeric analysis conducting setting priorities
meetings

setting work/committee goals developing plans for gathering information

projects

taking personal responsibility thinking of creative providing discipline when

ideas necessary

maintaining a high level of enforcing rules and meeting new people

activity regulations

developing a climate of interacting with picking out important

enthusiasm, teamwork, and people at different information
cooperation levels

creating meaningful and taking independent skillfully applying

challenging work action professional knowledge

maintaining emotional control knowledge of providing customers with

under stress concepts and service
principles

knowledge of
community/government
affairs