Title: Task 2. Competence and skills
Course: Study and career planning / Vierko > Section: Your strengths and goals

This exercise is called The mind map of competence and its aim is to help you recognize the competence that you have acquired in various occasions and to help structuralize and concretize it. The mind map will help you in outlining your overall competence development in a wider sense in different parts of your life, as in school, studies and work, but also hobbies and other leisure time activities.

All competence is beneficial.

Instructions for the assignment:

Create a mind map over your own life space. Hand in the file (for example a photo of your mind map drawn on a sheet of paper) by clicking the ADD SUBMISSION-button.

1) In the center of the paper draw a picture of yourself and then outline what areas there are in your life space. Examples of different areas are, for example, family, friends, hobbies and work. You can also do this digitally.

2) Proceeding one area at a time reflect on what knowledge or competence you have accumulated while operating in these areas. Especially, pay attention to those skills and competences that may be useful in you future profession or field.

Below you can see an example of a mind map drawn by a student.