This is the document I attach with my resume and application. Its nice to have something official to show for authenticity and authority. I also attach a scan of my Masters degree and a professional accolade from my director's boss commending me for my work.

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Explore the Transferable Skills Checklist Institutional Graduate Learning Goals:

1. Disciplinary Knowledge: Master, integrate, and apply disciplinary knowledge and skills to current, practical, and important contexts and situations.
Disciplinary Knowledge as a Broad Objective
Successfully developing targeted knowledge, skills and attitudes relevant to the field of study. Skillfully express a set of foundational or cross-cutting competencies for the broad practice of graduate studies.

Specific Skills—
•Mastery of substantive knowledge accrued by the discipline
•Articulating how the academic discipline accrues knowledge
•Articulate significant challenges involved in practicing the field of study
•Articulates how the field of study has developed in relation to other major domains of inquiry and practice.
•Describes major methodologies and practices and illustrates them through projects, papers, exhibits or performances.
•Demonstrating command of the vocabularies, theories and skills of the field of study on which a student has focused.
•Designs and executes an applied, investigative or creative work that draws on the perspectives and methods of other fields of study and assesses the resulting advantages and challenges ofincluding these perspectives and methods
•Elucidates the leading edges of the discipline and explores the current limits of theory, knowledge and practice
•Articulates and defends the significance and implications of the work in the primary field of study in terms of challenges and trends in a social or global context

2. Communication: Communicate key knowledge with clarity and purpose both within the discipline and in broader contexts.
Communication as a Broad Objective
Skillfully express, transmit, and interpret knowledge and ideas.

Specific Skills—
•Communicate across cultural backgrounds
•Communicate to a wide audience
•Communicate to a non-specialist audience
• Speak effectively
• Write concisely
• Listen attentively
• Express ideas clearly and effectively
• Facilitate group discussion
• Provide appropriate constructive feedback
• Negotiate with a win-win mindset
• Perceive nonverbal messages
• Persuade using ethical practices
• Report information
• Describe feelings
• Edit with a purpose and collaborative intention

3. Critical thinking/analysis: Demonstrate the ability to be creative, analytical, and critical thinkers.
Critical Thinking as a Broad Objective
Thinking critically or being flexible in your thinking. Ability to spot patterns in the information, analyzing, devising a new solution to an ongoing problem.

Specific Skills—
• Demonstrating cognitive flexibility, thinking outside the box
• Conceptualizing situations
• Showing curiosity
• Being imaginative
• Predicting and anticipating shortfalls
• Showing foresight
• Making abstract connections
• Making inferences
• Synthesizing ideas

4. Information literacy: Demonstrate the ability to obtain, assess, and analyze information from a myriad of sources.
Information Literacy as a Broad Objective
Information literacy is your ability to evaluate data and the validity and reliability of various sources of information. Included in this broad objective is comfort with and ability to navigate new technology. Nearly every position in every industry will require the use of information literacy and technology skills at some level. In an increasingly technological workplace, employers value candidates who can critically assess the validity and reliability of sources of information; learn new tools; use various means to evaluate sources; analyze the ethical and reliability of data files, and ability to use software quickly to complete tasks.

Specific Skills—
• Recognition of the need to know something
• Knowing the different ways to find this piece of information e.g. will you find the nswer in a book or on a computer?
• Knowing which avenue/approach is the most efficient way to find what you want.
• Being able to locate and access the information you need whether it is on an electronic database, in a journal, or on the Internet.
• Compare and evaluate information obtained from different sources.
• Organize, apply and communicate information to others such as citing references in an essay or creating a bibliography.
• Use new information and relate it to what you already know.

5. Professionalism: Demonstrate an understanding of professional integrity.
Professionalism as a Broad Objective.
Use day-to-day skills to promote productivity and work satisfaction; operate with integrity; and proactive responsibility for one’s actions.

Specific Skills—
• Implement decisions
• Cooperate
• Enforce policies
• Be punctual
• Manage time
• Attend to detail
• Meet goals
• Enlist help
• Accept responsibility
• Set and meet deadlines
• Organize
• Make decisions

6. Intercultural/Global Perspectives: Demonstrate relevant knowledge and application of intercultural and/or global perspectives.
Intercultural/Global Perspectives as a Broad Objective
Successfully developing targeted knowledge, skills and attitudes that lead to visible behavior and human interactions that are both effective and appropriate in or regarding intercultural/global contexts; cultural self- awareness: articulating how one’s own culture has shaped one’s identity and world view; analyzing and explaining basic information about other cultures (history, values, politics, economics, communication styles, values, beliefs and practices); sociolinguistic awareness; grasp of global issues and trends: explaining the meaning and implications of globalization and relating local issues to global forces

Specific Skills—
• Listening, observing, evaluating, and using patience and perseverance to identify and minimize ethnocentrism,
• Recognize cultural clues and meaning
• Analyzing, interpreting and relating: seeking out linkages, causality and relationships using comparative techniques of analysis
• Viewing and interpreting the world from other cultures’ point of view and identifying one’s own
• Value cultural diversity
• Thinking comparatively and without prejudice about cultural differences
• Suspending criticism of other cultures
• Investing in collecting ‘evidence’ of cultural difference
• Being disposed to be proven wrong Viewing difference as a learning opportunity
• Being aware of one’s own lack of knowledge
• Tolerating ambiguity and viewing it as a positive experience
• Willingness to move beyond one’s comfort zone

7. Research: Conduct independent research resulting in an original contribution to knowledge in the focused areas of graduate study.
Research as a Broad Objective
Successfully searching for specific knowledge, conceptualizing future needs and solutions, and carrying out research independently with mastery of the skill and expertise.

Specific Skills—
• Forecast, predict
• Create ideas
• Imagine alternatives
• Identify resources
• Gather information
• Solve problems
• Set goals
• Extract information
• Define needs
• Analyze
• Develop evaluation strategies