Discovering Your Work Skills
The purpose of this activity is to help you make links between your daily activities and work skills.
In particular, you will:
- See the importance of your curricular and extracurricular activities
- Gain a better understanding of your skills
- Learn about career options related to your skills
7am to 8am: Get ready and arrive at school. Skill: Responsibility
8am to 9am: Study Hall. Skill: Studying
9am to 10am: Advisory. Skill: Being advised
10am to 11am: Spanish. Skill: New language and communication
11am to 12pm: Government. Skill: World awareness.
12pm to 1pm: English. Skill: Writing and reading.
1pm to 2pm: Lunch and Gym. Skills: Eating and exercising.
2pm to 3pm: College research and departure from school. Skill: preparing for college and leaving school.
3pm to 4pm. Arrive home and do housework. Skill: Knowing how to get home and working skills.
4pm tp 5pm: school work. Skill: Responsibility
5pm to 6pm: Eating. Skill: avoiding hunger
6pm to 9pm. Relaxing. Skill: Relaxing.
STEP 1: A DAY IN MY LIFE
Fill in the A Day In My Life chart (see above). In the Activities column, write down the
things you do in a typical day. (You will answer these questions on your blog).
Be sure to include all classes, sports, social events, clubs, hobbies, chores,
after school jobs, etc. (You may use the Activities and Work Skills chart as a reference.)
Using the Activities and Work Skills chart, match your activities with the related work skills.
Now go back to your A Day In My Life chart and write down the work skills that match your activities
(put the work skills beside each activity, in the right-hand column).
1. Write down the work skill that appears most often in your day:
Work Skill #1:
Responsibility
2. Write down the work skill you would most enjoy using in a job:
Work Skill #2:
writing and reading
3. Write down the work skill you think would be most important in getting a good job:
Work Skill #3:
responsibility
STEP 2: USING CAREER CRUISING/WORK SKILL #1
Log in to Career Cruising and click on Careers, then click on the Start Career Selector button.
Go to the Core Tasks section and select the work skill/core task that appears most often in your day
(Work Skill #1 above).
Click on the blue View Results button. Career Cruising will show you a list of occupations where people
use the skill you selected.
STEP 3: RESEARCHING THE CAREER
Scroll through the list and click on a career that interests you.
Career:
4. Click on Job Description. Write down examples of how people in this career use the work skill you
selected.
Click on one of the two interviews.
Person’s name:
5. Click on A Day In The Life. Write down examples of how the person uses the skill you selected in
his/her workday.
Now click on the other interview.
Person’s name:
6. Click on A Day In The Life. Write down examples of how this person uses the skill you selected in
his/her workday.
STEP 4: USING CAREER CRUISING/WORK SKILL #2
Use your browser’s back button to return to the Career Selector screen. Go to the Core Tasks section.
Deselect the work skill/core task you chose before (i.e. click on it once to delete the checkmark).
Now select the work skill that you would most enjoy using in a job (Work Skill #2 above).
Click on View Results.
Scroll through the list and click on a career that interests you.
Career:
7. Read the Job Description and each of the interviewees’ A Day In The Life. Write down examples of
how people in this career use the work skill you selected.
STEP 5: USING CAREER CRUISING/WORK SKILL #3
Repeat Step 4, except this time select the work skill that you think would be most important in getting a
good job (Work Skill #3 above).
Career:
8. Read the Job Description and each of the interviewees’ A Day In The Life. Write down examples of
how people in this career use the work skill you selected.
