Skills Discovery

Discover Your Potential with Skills Discovery

MCS is offering Skills Discovery, a new cutting-edge self-assessment tool to help you identify and highlight your skills and strengths. 

Through a series of structured questions, Skills Discovery will help you understand what you do well, what activities energize you, and provide you with vocabulary to describe your skills with accuracy and confidence, no matter your concentration or career path. It will empower you to explore your unique capabilities and apply them effectively in their career and personal life. 

What will you gain? 

  • Identify your strengths and skills that go beyond grades and concentrations  
  • Learn and understand the skills employers and graduate schools value most  
  • Build confidence and self-awareness  
  • Gain language to accurately describe your skills for application materials and interviews  

Your Skills Discovery Includes:

  • A comprehensive list of your 80 skills, classified as: 
    • Realized Strengths 
    • Unrealized Strengths 
    • Learned Skills 
    • Weaknesses 
  • A personalized Career Guide with eight career suggestions tailored to your results 
  • A Validated Skills Alignment Report categorizing your strongest skill match used by leading employers 

Maximizing the Value of Skills Discovery 

After receiving your Skills Discovery results, it’s important to reflect on how your individual strengths and skills influence your goals and decision-making. Whether you’re reviewing your profile independently or in a guided debrief session with an MCS advisor, the following questions can help deepen your understanding and application of the results: 

Realized Strengths 

  • How do you interpret your realized strengths? 
  • Which of these strengths are you most proud of? 
  • Which strength holds the most meaning for you, and why? 
  • In what ways do you currently apply these strengths? 
  • Are there any strengths you tend to overuse? If so, how? 

Unrealized Strengths 

  • How do you view your unrealized strengths? 
  • Which unrealized strengths would you like to develop or utilize more often? 
  • How might you incorporate these strengths more in your daily life or work? 
  • What career goals would allow you to further apply your unrealized strengths? 
  • Do you know someone who demonstrates this as a realized strength from whom you can learn? 

Learned Skills 

  • What is your perspective on your learned skills? 
  • Are any of these skills being overused? If so, in what way? 
  • What can you do to re-energize or reframe your approach to these skills? 
  • How might you reduce your reliance on learned skills? 
  • Who in your network could support you in managing these skills? 

Weaknesses 

  • How do you perceive your weaknesses? 
  • In what ways might your weaknesses impact your career aspirations? 
  • How can you leverage your strengths to compensate for these weaknesses? 
  • Do you know someone who has this area as a strength and could offer guidance? 
  • What steps can you take to prevent your weaknesses from hindering your goals? 

By thoughtfully engaging with Skills Discovery, you can gain clarity, build confidence, and make more intentional choices in your personal and professional journey. 

Sign on via Harvard Key to take the Skills Discovery assessment anytime. 

Meet with an MCS advisor to review your assessment to update your resume, create an internship search strategy, or discuss concentration exploration.