What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

I Am a Person Who…
CAN DO THESE PARTICULAR THINGS
My Favorite Transferable Skills
Goal in Filling Out This Petal: To discover what your favorite functional skills
are, that can be transferred to any field of interest. They are things you probably
were born knowing how to do, or at least you began with a natural gift and have
honed and sharpened it since.
What You Are Looking For: Not just what you can do, but more particularly
which of those you most love to use.
Form of the Entries on Your Petal: Verbs, usually in pure form (e.g., analyze)
though they may sometimes be in gerund form (ending in -ing, e.g., analyzing).
Example of a Good Petal: (These stories show that I can) innovate, manipulate,
analyze, classify, coach, negotiate; OR (to use the gerund form of these verbs),
these stories show that I am good at innovating, manipulating, analyzing,
classifying, coaching, negotiating.
Example of a Bad Petal: Adaptable, charismatic, reliable, perceptive, discreet,
dynamic, persistent, versatile.
Why Bad: These are all traits, or self-management skills; that is, they turn out
to be the style with which you do your best, favorite, transferable skills. They
are important, but they are not transferable skills. Incidentally, there is a new
category floating around in the past ten years, called “soft skills.” These are
really just another way of speaking about your skills with people, and/or your
self-management skills, because examples typically are things like “a good