How to express a skill or competence

It is important that you know how to express conveniently your skills and competences, so before you start choosing them by areas you should take into account the notes below:

You should give or describe situational examples or professional or living experience of times during your mobility when you have performed particular tasks or achieved particular outcomes using certain skills.

You should have an idea of the experiences from your mobility that you could use to demonstrate the competences. You should give all the details that you consider relevant for the job you are applying.

It is convenient that you use the following structure:

Description of the skills or competence + how you have acquired/improved/learnt it (task, living experience) + in a situation (job, neighbourhood, hobbies)

Here you have some useful expressions:

		SKILLS OR COMPETENCES		DOING SOMETHING	IN A SITUATION
I have	improved acquired developed learnt demonstrated my ability achieved implement enriched Good capacity in	my	by	Task Living experience Using a tool	Job neighbourhood hobbies school
OTHER USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
I am able to
I am successful in

Below you can find some useful examples:

I have improved my pluricultural skills & competences by working in a multicultural team in my professional environment
I have acquired new ICT competences by using specific mobile applications linked to specific municipal services in (country)
I've improved my interpersonal skills by living in a district with a great cultural diversity (specify)
I have developed basic leadership competences by motivating and convincing people in a new context in my professional environment.
Throughout my mobility I have demonstrated an ability to successfully communicate complex information to children. I carefully consider my audience and take into account their level of knowledge and preferred approach (e.g. visual, aural, kinaesthetic), when planning my communication.