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The document is a self-assessment tool for Ph.D. students to evaluate their transferable skills across various categories such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, leadership, professionalism, diversity, digital technology, career management, and personal wellness. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing strengths and weaknesses to guide career exploration and development. The assessment aims to help students identify areas for improvement and enhance their employability skills.

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ph.d._transferable_skills_self-assessment

The document is a self-assessment tool for Ph.D. students to evaluate their transferable skills across various categories such as teamwork, communication, critical thinking, leadership, professionalism, diversity, digital technology, career management, and personal wellness. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing strengths and weaknesses to guide career exploration and development. The assessment aims to help students identify areas for improvement and enhance their employability skills.

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Ph.D.

Transferable Skills Self-Assessment


As a Ph.D. student, you develop a diverse array of skills that build upon and expand beyond your research and teaching.
Assessing your current strengths and weaknesses helps you identify areas that you need to work on during your graduate
journey.
Complete the table below to help you identify and assess your transferable skills. Below are some of the major domains of
skills that employers value1. Also, learning what you enjoy and what you’re good at is vital for your career exploration as they
clarify what you want to keep in your career.

Skill Self-Assessment for Graduate Students


Highly or Need to
Enjoy
Skill Category Specific Transferable Skill Moderately Develop
Using
Proficient in Further
Identify and leverage the strengths of others to maximize
team outcomes
Network to collaborate, share resources and brainstorm
ideas
Teamwork &
Develop collaborative relationships with colleagues or
Collaboration
clients with diverse backgrounds
Negotiate with people with different personalities to
achieve a common goal
Understand and assume diverse roles in different groups
Organize and present my ideas to people with different
backgrounds under time constraints
Write/edit diverse forms of writing from brief abstracts to
book-length manuscripts
Explain complex or theoretical concepts/ideas in basic
Communication
terms and language
Persuade others by using logical arguments with supportive
evidence
Facilitate group discussions effectively by keeping them
constructive and positive
Assess legitimacy or credibility of resources/information
Consolidate/synthesize large amounts of information into a
coherent argument
Critical
Thinking & Collect/analyze data and develop independent conclusions
Problem
Define a problem and design an experiment or research to
Solving
examine potential solutions
Identify emerging trends and offer evidence-informed
insights for improvement
Motivate, train and coach individuals to accomplish goals
Prioritize tasks while maintaining flexibility to address
potential/unexpected problems
Leadership
& Project Create a strategic plan with a realistic timeline to complete
Management projects
Assess/identify opportunities or areas for improvement to
achieve goals more effectively
Navigate dynamic and complex environments
Skill Self-Assessment for Graduate Students

Highly or Need to
Enjoy
Skill Category Specific Transferable Skill Moderately Develop
Using
Proficient in Further
Consider the impacts of my actions on the broader
community and make responsible decisions
Use appropriate tone and language (verbal and written) in
the workplace in my every interaction with colleagues
Professionalism
& Work Ethic Maintain a consistent performance to deliver quality work
Take responsibility for mistakes and learn from them
Follow standards or guidelines to ensure data privacy and
security
Engage with people from different backgrounds with
respect, openness and sensitivity
Recognize similarities and differences within and across
people
Identify my own cultural values, implicit bias, identity, and
Diversity, experiences, and assess how these factors may influence my
Equity and daily interactions with others
Inclusion (DEI)
Recognize culturally or socially embedded practices that
generate inequities across diverse groups and respond
consistently and systematically to challenge them
Use my increased DEI-related knowledge and intercultural
awareness by adjusting my behaviors to create a safe,
inclusive working environment
Use appropriate software to transform data into more
understandable digital forms
Combine different types of information from various sources
Digital to create legally and ethically appropriate new information
Technology (e.g., infographics, reports, website, blogs, etc.
Navigate different types of content and sources online
to find the specific information I need from high-quality
sources (e.g., journal database)
Engage in self-care to improve my physical and mental well-
being
Increase awareness of resources and support available to
promote career development and wellness in my community
and ask for help when needed
Career
Enhance my self-knowledge (e.g., skills, values, current
Management
unique personal situations) to identify areas for professional
& Personal
growth to achieve career goals
Wellness
Understand career development is a gradual process
through various experiential learning and constant
reflections over the years rather than a single turning point
Become my own best advocate for professional and
personal development

1 Adapted from the NACE Career Readiness Competencies: The major domains of skills that employers value.

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