Job Skills

Skills are the activities that a person does well. What things are you good at doing? Everyone has many skills. Sometimes it is difficult to recognize the skills that you have.

Job skills are abilities you need for a specific job. For example, a chef needs to know how to cook and bake. A taxi driver needs to know how to drive a car and read signs. A secretary needs to know how to type and take messages.

Transferable skills are skills you can use in many different jobs. You can take skills from one job and use them in a very different job. Speaking English well, for instance, is a skill you can use in almost any job. Some examples of transferable skills are teaching other people, solving problems, accepting responsibility, organizing projects, making decisions, and creating new ideas. Employers want to select employees who have or who can learn the skills necessary to do the job.
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.

1. _____ are activities a person does well.
   Sentences / Skills / Potatoes / ExamplesSkills
2. Everyone _____ many skills.
   have / has / is/ has
3. Sometimes it is difficult _____ the skills you have.
   to play / abilities / to recognize / recognizesto recognize
4. Job skills are _____ you need for a specific job .
   lessons / abilities /working / recognizes abilities
5. _____ skills are skills you can use in many different jobs.
   Job / Cooking / Transferable / babysitting Transferable
6. An example of a transferable skill is ______.
   driving a taxi/ writing well / playing the violin / cooking Chinese food writing well
7. An example of a job skill is _____ .
   cooking pizza / working well with people / accepting responsibility / organizing projects cooking pizza
8. Employers want to select people who can learn the _____ necessary to do the job.
   skills / books / idea / shiningskills