Evaluate Your Competencies
Competencies are the cluster of skills and personal characteristics that works in concert to enable you to perform certain kinds of work effectively. Skills or what you do; competencies are broader areas of expertise.
Identify competencies is not always easy. Your competencies must be important to organization hiring you. It cannot simply be a function or a job title. Competencies describe your value beyond this year’s needed skill.
To identify your competencies, start back considering:
- What you do that no other person can do quite the way you do it.
- What your target employers will pay a premium price for.
- How you can set yourself apart from others and your profession.
- How you can maintain your career advantage in the future.
