To analyze your competencies, you can use the following exercise.

Step 1: Discover your own competences.

The questionnaire below will help you discover and recognize your own competences. Assess yourself on the aspects mentioned by awarding yourself a score from 1 to 5. A score of 1 means that you have none or very little of this quality. A score of 5 means that you possess this quality to a very strong degree. Try to look at yourself objectively.

Step 2: Let others assess your competences.

Ask at least two other persons to assess you on the same aspects.

After assessing yourself, ask 3–5 others from your network to complete it (pick a variety of relations (family, friends, fellow students, colleagues)). Discuss the outcomes together so you will gain even more insight!

At the end, summarize your findings.

Download the questionnaire here.