UndergradSkiller: Skill Set Map for Undergraduates and Their Educators

LEARNING AND SELF-MANAGEMENT: Skills and Career Planning

Identifying Your Skills

Many students underestimate the skills they develop through their studies and extracurricular activities. Self-assessment tools can help students recognize transferable skills such as communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, and articulate them to future employers.

Useful Resources on Identifying Your Skills:

Chapman Learning Commons. (n.d.). Transferable skills: Self-assessment. https://learningcommons.ubc.ca/transferable-skills-self-assessment

Annotation: Interactive online quiz that prompts students to reflect on their university experiences and identifies transferable skills they may not have recognized, such as teamwork, communication, time management, and conflict resolution. Each response links to further resources from the University of British Columbia.

University of Cambridge. (n.d.). Build your skills. Cambridge Students. https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/skills-development/build-your-skills

Annotation: This guide from Cambridge University walks students through reflecting on their existing skills and building new ones through extracurricular activities, volunteering, and community engagement. Includes a link to Cambridge's Skills Discovery Tool for creating a personalized development plan.

Cardiff University. (n.d.). Assess your academic skills. https://xerte.cardiff.ac.uk/play_16112

Annotation: Interactive self-assessment tool that allows students to rate their confidence across categories including digital skills, presenting, researching, studying, and writing. It provides tailored recommendations based on responses.

Peer Review: None

Table of contents:

4.1. Finding Help and Support
4.1.1. Seeking Support
4.1.2. Communicating with Professors

4.2. Learning and Study Skills
4.2.1. How We Learn
4.2.2. Metacognition
4.2.3. Study Strategies
4.2.4. Studying in STEM
4.2.5. Note-Taking and Lectures
4.2.6. Exam Preparation

4.3. Time Management and Focus
4.3.1. Time Management Strategies
4.3.2. The Pomodoro Technique
4.3.3. Understanding Procrastination
4.3.4. Staying Motivated
4.3.5. Digital Focus Tools

4.4. Reflective Practice
4.4.1. Growth Mindset Strategies
4.4.2. Reflective Practice Tools

4.5. Wellbeing
4.5.1. Mental Health
4.5.2. Personal Wellbeing
4.5.3. Digital Wellbeing
4.5.4. Stress Management
4.5.5. Budgeting
4.5.6. Finding Friends

4.6. Adapting Your Study Approach
4.6.1. Neurodiversity and University
4.6.2. Studying with ADHD
4.6.3. Studying with Dyslexia and Assistive Tools

4.7. Skills and Career Planning

4.7.1. Identifying Your Skills

4.7.2. Setting Goals
4.7.3. Career Planning
4.7.4. Postgraduate Study
4.7.5. Internships and E-Learning

 

Author: Leeanne Irwin

Peer Reviewer(s): None