Taking an audit of your skills at the beginning of your course will help you to define your current status and highlight where you need to develop certain skills. At the end of each year you can complete a new skills audit, based on your experiences. This process allows you to monitor your own development as you progress through University.

"It will help me to evaluate the skills I have learnt in order to recognise what I'm good at."

Over the three/four years of your degree course your skills level should improve. An area in which you are 'very confident' in the first year will still need to show an improvement if you want to maintain that level in the third/fourth year.

Use the Editable Word Doc to complete the skills audit and save it for future reference.

Your audit will help you identify areas where you can build on your current strengths, as well as areas that need improving. In the following sections you can translate these into goals and then plan how to achieve them.