Initially, carrying out a skills assessment may seem like a superfluous or tedious exercise, but I highly recommend it. Of course, it will cost you a little time, but consider it more of an investment…
A safe way to avoid referral errors
Carrying out a skills assessment will allow you to see clearly within yourself, identify your professional skills, identify your motivations, understand your past choices and make good decisions in the future…
It will also prevent you from making mistakes, such as sending CVs all over the place, sending autobiographical stories to potential recruiters, immediately contacting the companies that interest you most, to address a decision-maker without really knowing what to propose, to disperse yourself with contradictory objectives, to burn your cartridges…
Taking stock of the past, analyzing the present, but above all building the future. Identification of a professional project which will be at the crossroads of your skills, your values, your expectations but
which will also take into account the reality of the market, the sector, the environment, etc.
Carrying out a skills assessment will allow you to act instead of reacting, to be proactive rather than passive, to think in terms of added value… What is unique about me?
Can you do your assessment yourself?
Do you need help to carry out a skills assessment or can you do it yourself? The two approaches are not opposed but complementary. Self-diagnosis is not easy; it requires will, patience, constancy, honesty, a certain distance from oneself.
Having it established by professionals is a longer process over time (because it is spread out
generally over several weeks or several months), more expensive (because you have to pay for the counseling sessions) and much more in-depth because it adds the dimension of an external perspective to the self-diagnosis.
An advisor specializing in skills assessment, generally a career transition advisor or company trainer, helps you connect all the information you give them about yourself, as if they were building a puzzle with you. It makes the link between your private life, your professional life, your basic training, your social life, your interests, your values, your motivations, your personality traits.
How does it start?
First, it analyzes your request and the objective behind it. Everything starts from your current situation and your expectations, for example:
- I’m going through a delicate period: I’m between two jobs, I’ve moved, I’ve suffered burnout, my business has closed… This will then be a reorientation assessment.
- I want to position myself in relation to the labor market, to a certain sector of activity, to a specific profession? This will be a positioning assessment.
- I want to discover my qualities and my transversal skills, those that I can transpose from one field to another, in order to discover a new niche, a new professional challenge? We will then talk about a skills transfer assessment
- I have just lost my job and would like to take the opportunity to change direction.
- I worked in the same profession for 15 years but I now want to reorient myself towards another profession, with more opportunities.
- I notice that there are few job offers in my sector. I need to broaden my horizons…
- I have been working in the same job for 7 years and would like to progress in terms of salary and responsibilities.
- I want to specialize because there is a lot of competition in the profession I do.
- I have just moved to follow my partner but my previous job is non-existent in the region.
- Following an accident, I can no longer practice my job and I must find a job compatible with my new constraints.
- I have no diploma and no experience, what do I do to find a job?
If you want to check if you are ready to change jobs or if you want to carry out a skills assessment, it’s over here.
