What are Agilities?
Agilities are work skills found in every job. They reflect what you enjoy doing, what you do well, and how you prefer to learn, solve problems, and contribute. Understanding your Agilities helps you build confidence, develop career literacy, and explore careers that align with your strengths. As your experiences and skills grow, your Agilities can evolve over time. Once you discover your Agilities, you can explore careers where those strengths are commonly used and valued.
The 10 Agilities are: Developing Others, Innovating, Inspecting, Judging and Estimating, Managing, Operating Objects, Organizing, Selling and Communicating, Serving and Caring, and Working with Information.
Hyperlinks allow you to dive into each Agility.
Where do Agilities come from?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) maintains longitudinal data on characteristics of all formal occupations in the U.S. economy. Within 1,000 occupations, a representative sample of individuals is periodically surveyed on key work activities, skills, abilities, and knowledge necessary for effectiveness. Based on its independent analysis of the BLS data, The DeBruce Foundation determined there are fundamental themes of work activities across occupations. These themes are referred to as Agilities, and they appear in varying degrees in all jobs in the economy.
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