Strengths and Assets Shopping List

Use this list to help you identify strengths and assets as you reflect on your story. This list is referenced in the Your Story CareerCycles Handout.

Strengths are skills and knowledge you want to use. As Assets, these may be learned behaviors and additional skills you possess, though you don’t want to use as much. Click here for PDF of list

Strengths and Assets Shopping List

Use this list to help you identify strengths and assets as you reflect on your story. This list is referenced in the Your Story CareerCycles Handout.

Strengths are skills and knowledge you want to use. As Assets, these may be learned behaviors and additional skills you possess, though you don’t want to use as much.


1. Advise

2. Analyse

3. Athletic ability

4. Budget

5. Calculate

6. Classify

7. Counsel / coach

8. Compose

9. Computer applications

10. Computer networking

11. Computer programming

12. Coordinate

13. Cultivate or grow

14. Delegate

15. Design

16. Develop programs

17. Draft

18. Draw or paint

19. Edit

20. Enforce

21. Estimate / appraise

22. Evaluate

23. Examine

24. Exhibit

25. Financial ability

26. Generate ideas

27. Influence or persuade

28. Inspect

29. Interpersonal

30. Interpret

31. Interview

32. Investigate

33. Lab techniques

34. Lead and manage

35. Listen

36. Make decisions

37. Market / business development

38. Measure

39. Monitor

40. Motivate

41. Multitask

42. Multilingual / language skills

43. Negotiate

44. Network

45. Observe

46. Operate machinery

47. Organize and plan

48. Perform

1. Advise 2. Analyse 3. Athletic ability 4. Budget 5. Calculate 6. Classify 7. Counsel / coach 8. Compose 9. Computer applications 10. Computer networking 11. Computer programming 12. Coordinate 13. Cultivate or grow 14. Delegate 15. Design 16. Develop programs 17. Draft 18. Draw or paint 19. Edit 20. Enforce 21. Estimate / appraise 22. Evaluate 23. Examine 24. Exhibit 25. Financial ability 26. Generate ideas 27. Influence or persuade 28. Inspect 29. Interpersonal 30. Interpret 31. Interview 32. Investigate 33. Lab techniques 34. Lead and manage 35. Listen 36. Make decisions 37. Market / business development 38. Measure 39. Monitor 40. Motivate 41. Multitask 42. Multilingual / language skills 43. Negotiate 44. Network 45. Observe 46. Operate machinery 47. Organize and plan 48. Perform 49. Prepare food 50. Present / public speaking 51. Project management 52. Promote or sell 53. Record 54. Research 55. Schedule 56. Serve / customer service 57. Solve problems 58. Strategic thinking 59. Supervise 60. Survey 61. Teach / train 62. Teamwork / work with others 63. Test 64. Translate 65. Treat / nurse 66. Work with hands 67. Write 68.
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