Transcript Supporting Evidence of Your Skills

Supporting
Evidence of Your
Skills
Or statements that may be useful
Skills evidence for personal statement
Communication Skills
Include:
 Face to Face Skills
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Sales work/dealing with the public
Presentations
 As part of a course
Public speaking
 Wedding Speech?
Voluntary work
Committee work
Bar work
Waiter/waitress experience
Skills evidence for personal statement
Communication Skills cont.
 Telephone
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Selling on the telephone
Ordering by telephone
Reception/switchboard experience
 In Writing
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Reports
Essays
Legal correspondence
Articles for local newspapers
Secretarial duties for local club/society
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More Communication Skills
 In teams
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Member of netball/football/hockey/rugby
team etc
Member of a group/project
 Persuasion and Negotiation
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Sales work
Being elected on to committees/unions
Arranging work experience/job shadowing
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Leadership skills
 Position of responsibility
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i.e. Chairperson
 Secretary/treasurer
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of a club or society
 Supervisory experience
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In work or voluntary positions
 Captain/team leader
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Personal Skills
 Able to Meet Deadlines
 Work combined with family commitments
 Timetabling travel arrangements
 Course work submitted on time
 Organise own workload
 Part time work combined with studying
 Hobbies and academic work balanced
 Committed and Reliable
 Long standing member of club/society
 Long term interest in particular hobby
 Returning to study after a long break
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Presenting Your Skills
 Set the scene
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State where/when situation occurred
 Explain
the difficulties/challenges
 Explain what you did
 Give the Results of your actions
 What did you learn/develop as a result
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This is where you discuss skills/knowledge
developed
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is the most important aspect
Skills evidence for personal statement
Your Turn Now…
 Jot down your skills here
 Choose 4-5 main strengths and skills
That are relevant for your particular
application
 Apply the suggested structure for presenting
each skill
 Amend your personal statement if necessary
 UCAS Personal Statement Worksheet
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http://www.ucas.com/documents/statement/wor
ksheet.pdf
Skills evidence for personal statement