Transferable Skills Letter

To Whom It May Concern:

Being a manager of a Mcdonald’s restaurant has given me good skills of organization and communication to go along with my love for reading. I also have profound writing skills, as well as being an extraordinarily self-motivated person. I know that these skills will help me keep your library in good order as well as instill a love for books in the children of your school. I look forward to working in your school district.

Thank you,
Heather Dillingham

Skills Assessment

3 skills that I enjoy are: Organizing, Observing, and Maintaining.
3 skills that I perform well are: Following specifications, writing, and self-motivation.
3 skills that I would like to develop are: Operating, diagnosing, and Creating.

The skills that I would like to acquire require a lot of hands-on training and just practicing them a lot. I seem to break everything mechanical that I touch, so it might take more practice for myself than someone else.

After taking the online assessment I kind of laughed, because it came up with a Respiratory Therapy Technician and then a Nuclear Engineer. Although, I would find these jobs very fascinating, my mechanical skills aren't the best, as I mentioned above. I'm finding more and more that the jobs that I would like and the skills that I enjoy are things that bring a challenge to me. I just worry with those types of jobs that at the end of the day, I just might not be smart enough to do it. Math and science are some of my worst school subjects, but the jobs that I would like seem to have a lot of math and science to go with them.

"Mission Statement"

As life moves faster and faster, I want to make every moment count.

Top 10 Values

My top ten work and personal values are:

-Availability to my spouse. My family is the foundation of my life and my husband is the beginning of that family, so I will always make sure that I make time for “just us”.

-Availability to my children. My children come in at a very, very close second to my spouse. I believe that children are a privilege and that no one can replace a child’s mother.

-Religion. I am a Christian and believe that God is the person that makes life, so I should put time aside for him.

-Family relationships. I think that children are not only raised by their parents, but also by others around them. I want as much positive influence in their lives as I can give them.

-Ethics. I just finished the Ethics and Values course last semester and learned that many people’s business ethics can be far from their personal ethics. So, I would like a career where people have good moral values and won’t put them aside for a good profit.

-Respect. I am a person just the same as anyone else. If they wish my respect, then I must have respect in turn.

-Financial Comfort. All people require money in this life to live, so I would like enough to live by.

-Safety. A safe place to live and work means that I can be comfortable. Then I don’t have to live with a lot of unneeded stress and fear.

-Sense of accomplishment. I want a career that fulfills me. I have a hard time being motivated to do anything if I don’t feel like I’m being productive in accomplishing something.

-Time to myself. At the end of the day there is only so much a person can give. I take time to myself to rejuvenate me as a whole.

I believe that the career that I choose will have to be one that I am able to devote a lot of time to my family, one that is flexible. I want it to be my “Time to myself” so that I actually want to go to it; otherwise, there isn’t enough of a financial need in my life to get me to it.

In the future, though, there are a lot of things that can change. Kids grow up and as their need of me diminishes, that will make more time to focus on a more aggressive career.