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TRY THIS: Identify skills from a job description

Look at the example job description above. Read it carefully and try to think about what skills would be required to perform each task. It may be that more than one skill is required for some tasks, and some skills may apply to more than one task. Use the table below to list the tasks from the job description, and match each task to the skill or skills you will need for each task.

Table 2.1    Identifying skills

Tasks	Skills

How did you find that? I suspect you will have found some skills very obvious and easy to identify – but it might have taken a little more thought, and some real reflection of the tasks, in order to get some of the less obvious skills needed ...