1. Bell Ringer
Why is it a good idea to think about your interests when making career choices?
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2. You should think about your interests when you make your career choice so that you will enjoy what you do and stay interested in your career.
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3. Your Skills and Aptitudes
Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes

4. How skills and aptitudes differ What your skills and aptitudes
Discover
How skills and aptitudes differ
What your skills and aptitudes
The importance of linking your skills and aptitudes to careers
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5. Question
Why are skills and aptitudes important?

6. Let’s Compare Skills & Aptitudes

7. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
A skill is the ability to perform a task due to training/education and experience.
Once you have learned something, it becomes a skill.

8. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
An ability is a skill you have already developed.
An aptitude is your potential for learning a skill.

9. Comparing Skills and Aptitudes
Having an aptitude is having a knack (natural gift) for something, like drawing or training pets.
Aptitudes can be developed into skills.

10. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Job-specific skills are the skills necessary to do a particular job, like balancing a budget or programming a computer.

11. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Transferable skills are general skills used in school and in various types of jobs.
Transferable skills are always necessary.

12. Understanding Different Kinds of Skills
Employers always want workers to have both job-specific skills and general transferable skills.

13. Graphic Organizer Transferable Workplace Skills Communication Skills
Adaptability
Skills
Transferable
Skills
Listening Skills
Social Skills
Problem-Solving
Skills
Teamwork
Skills
Technology
Skills
Organizing and
Planning Skills
Decision-Making
Skills

14. Question
Why are skills and aptitudes important?

15. Answer: Your skills and aptitudes are clues to what you can do.
They can point you toward different careers.

16. Your Skills and Aptitudes
End of Chapter 1
Self Awareness
Lesson 1.2
Your Skills and Aptitudes