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| SCANS | is a set of skills necessary for success in the world of work |
| Reading | locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules. |
| Writing | communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing, and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts. |
| Arithmetic/Mathematics | performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques. |
| Listening | receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues. |
| Speaking | organizes ideas and communicates orally. |
| Creativity | generates new ideas. |
| Decision Making | specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternative. |
| Problem Solving | recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action. |
| Seeing Things in the Mind’s Eye | organizes, and processes symbols, pictures, graphs, objects, and other information. |
| Knowing how to learn | uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills. |
| Reasoning | discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem. |
| Responsibility | exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment. |
| Self-Esteem | believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self. |
| Sociability | demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings |
| Self-Management | assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control. |
| Integrity/Honesty | chooses ethical courses of action. |
| Time | selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules. |
| Money | uses or prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives. |
| Material and Facilities | acquires, stores, allocates, and uses materials or space efficiently. |
| Human Resources | assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback. |
| Participates as a Member of a Team | contributes to group effort. |
| Serves Clients/Customers | works to satisfy customers’ expectations. |
| Exercises Leadership | communicates ideas to justify position, persuades and convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies. |
| Negotiates | works toward agreements involving exchange of resources, resolves divergent interests. |
| Works With Diversity | works well with men and women from diverse backgrounds. |
| Acquires and Evaluates Information | identifies need for data, obtains it from existing sources or creates it, and evaluates its relevance and accuracy. |
| Organizes and Maintains Information | organizes, processes, and maintains written or computerized records and other forms of information in a systematic fashion. |
| Interprets and Communicates Information | selects and analyzes information and communicates the results to others using oral, written, graphic, pictorial, or multimedia methods. |
| Uses Computers to Process Information | employs computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information. |
| Understands Systems | knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively with them. |
| Monitors and Corrects Performance | distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system operations, diagnoses deviations in systems’ performance and corrects malfunctions. |
| Improves or Designs Systems | suggests modifications to existing systems and develops new or alternative systems to improve performance. |
| Selects Technology | chooses procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies. |
| Applies Technology to Task | understands overall intent and proper procedure for setup and operation of equipment. |
| Maintains and Troubleshoots Equipment | prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies. |
| Transferable skills | are skills that you can take from one job to the next. |
