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Select your skill level.
Use the examples to help choose your levels. Think about whether you have done the example activity, or something like it in your own field.
Administration and Management
How much do you know about business planning and leadership?
Complete a timesheet
Monitor project progress to complete it on time
Manage a $10m company
Biology
How much do you know about plant, animal and cell functions?
Care for a pet
Investigate effects of pollution on plants
Identify a new virus
Body Coordination
How well can you coordinate moving your arms, legs, and torso together?
Get in and out of a truck
Swim one pool length, or play a ball sport
Perform ballet choreography
Building and Construction
How much do you know about construction materials, methods, and tools?
Hang a picture
Fix a plumbing leak in ceiling
Build a high-rise
Chemistry
How well do you know chemistry?
Use a household chemical safely
Use proper chlorine concentration to purify water source
Develop a formula for a safe cleaner
Clerical
How much do you know about administrative tasks and processes?
File forms
Type 30 words per minute
Design an online office-wide storage system
Complex Problem Solving
How good are you at figuring out the best way to solve a problem?
Gather tools for a household job
Redesign a floor plan around new equipment
Develop a local disaster response plan
Computers and Electronics
How effective are you at using electronic equipment?
Open a program on a computer
Use a word processor
Create a virus-scanning program
Customer and Personal Service
How well do you know how to handle customer needs and resolve service problems?
Process a dry-cleaning order
Supervise 10 children at a day care
Plan customer outreach after data privacy breach
Economics and Accounting
How well do you know banking and financial systems?
Answer billing questions
Develop an investment plan for clients
Oversee a large firm's finances
Fine Arts
How well do you know the theory and techniques of an art form such as music, painting, drama, or other?
Attend a concert
Play a minor part in a local theater play
Teach the theory of an art form
Foreign Language
How well do you know a foreign language?
Say "please" and "thank you"
Ask directions in a foreign city
Critique a literary book
Helping People
How good are you at understanding how to help people?
Ask clients if they would like coffee
Make travel arrangements for customers
Direct relief operations in a disaster area
Instructing
How skilled are you at teaching people how to do something?
Show someone how to bowl
Instruct a coworker in how to operate a software program
Demonstrate surgery to interns
Management of Financial Resources
What level of financial decision-maker are you?
Record office supply purchases
Prepare and manage a budget for a short-term project
Oversee yearly budgets for a large firm
Mathematics
What is your level of math skill?
Add two large numbers
Calculate the square footage of a home
Derive a complex formula
Mechanical
How well can you design, use, repair, and maintain machines?
Replace a battery in a smoke detector
Replace a valve on a steam pipe
Overhaul a jet engine
Medicine and Dentistry
How well do you know how to provide health care?
Treat a cut
Fill a tooth cavity
Perform open-heart surgery
Memorization
How good is your memory?
Remember your bus number
Recite the first names of 5 people you just met
Quickly memorize and recite a complex equation
Monitoring
How well can you assess your or others’ work?
Proofread a letter
Make adjustments to a meeting to ensure key goals are met
Measure and plan to increase a firm's productivity
Negotiation
How well do you persuade others to see different points of view or compromise?
Justify a new work schedule to your manager
Contract with a wholesaler to sell items at a given cost
Negotiate a foreign treaty as an ambassador
Operations Analysis
How well can you analyze needs and requirements, then make a plan that meets them?
Select a copy machine for the office
Suggest software changes to make a system more user friendly
Identify system needs for a new process production plant
Personnel and Human Resources
How well do you know the principles and procedures for recruiting, hiring, and training employees?
Fill out a medical claim form
Interview applicants for a new position
Design a new HR system for a large firm
Production and Processing
How well can you oversee manufacturing and distribution processes?
Repack a computer in original box
Supervise an appliance assembly line
Maintain an international distribution center
Programming
How well can you write computer programs?
Create an Excel spreadsheet
Write a statistical program to analyze demographic data
Write a program to analyze data for probability results
Psychology
How well do you know the methods of research, assessment, and treatment of human behavior?
Monitor kids on a playground
Understand the impact of addiction on human responses
Treat a person with severe mental illness
Public Safety and Security
How well do you know the equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies used to promote security operations?
Follow work safety guidelines
Inspect a building site for safety violations
Command a military operation
Quality Control Analysis
How well can you develop and use testing processes?
Compare two ways to make a recipe
Measure new part requisitions for tolerance to specifications
Plan and run a test for a new computer program
Repairing
How well can you repair machines or systems using the needed tools?
Tighten the correct screw to get a door to close properly
Replace a faulty hydraulic valve
Repair structural damage after an earthquake
Sales and Marketing
How well can you perform marketing strategies and tactics?
Sell cakes at a bake sale
Call a list of clients to introduce them to a new product line
Develop a marketing plan for a large firm
Science
How well can you use scientific rules and methods to solve problems?
Maintain house plants
Conduct product tests to ensure safety standards are met
Analyze aerodynamic systems for aircraft design
Sociology and Anthropology
How well do you know the theories of group behavior, societal trends and influences, and human culture?
Identify two different cultures
Write an article about cultural differences
Create a new theory of civilization's development
Speaking
How well do you convey information when you speak?
Greet customers
Interview applicants to obtain personal and work history
Argue a legal case before the Supreme Court
Systems Analysis
How well can you analyze systems?
Manage work with a missing teammate
Determine how new equipment will affect production rates
Identify impact of tax changes across industries
Teaching and Course Design
How well do you know the principles and methods of instruction?
Teach workers how to use a time clock
Lead a quality improvement seminar
Design a training program for new employees
Telecommunications
How well do you understand telecom systems?
Use a business phone
Install a satellite TV dish
Develop a worldwide telecom network
Therapy and Counseling
How well do you know the principles and methods used in counseling?
Offer sympathy to a stranger
Provide job counseling to the unemployed
Supervise experienced therapists
Time Management
How well do you manage your and others' time?
Keep a monthly appointment calendar
Allocate staff time to projects for the coming week
Allocate scientists’ time to multiple multi-stage projects
Troubleshooting
How well can you identify and fix problems in machines or technology?
Identify source of leak on outside of machine
Identify the circuit causing an electrical system to fail
Oversee code debugging for new operating system
Writing
How well does your writing effectively communicate to an audience's particular need?
Take a telephone message
Write a memo to staff outlining new directives
Write a technical manual
