Bloominity/What Are You Actually Brilliant At? The 10 Minute Skills Audit
Skills audit worksheet for mid-career women

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You Have More Than You Think: The Skills Audit

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Walk away having identified at least three transferable skills you have been overlooking, undervaluing or failing to name.

The most common thing I hear from mid career women considering a pivot is: I do not have the right skills for anything different.

They are always wrong.

After 25 years in recruitment, I can tell you that the skills gap is almost never the real problem. The real problem is that most women cannot see what they already have — because nobody has ever helped them look at it properly.

This taster audit takes 20 minutes. You will work through a structured inventory of everything you have built across your career — and you will come out the other side seeing yourself differently.

It is a taster, not the full audit. But even this version tends to shift something.

Download it. Do the work honestly. Then see what you have been sitting on.

Does this sound familiar?

You're good at your job. But is it actually you?

Most mid-career women can rattle off a list of skills. But ask them what they're genuinely built for — and they go quiet.

This audit is for you if any of these land a little too close to home:

😶 Someone asks "what are you good at?" and your mind goes blank — even though you've been doing your job for years.

🙈 When someone compliments you, your automatic response is "oh, anyone could do that." They couldn't. But you believe it.

📄 Your CV lists your responsibilities perfectly. But it doesn't capture what you're actually exceptional at.

😔 You're competent. Reliable. Respected. But something feels off — like you're performing a role rather than living one.

WHY THIS HAPPENS

The system is set up to make you blind to yourself.

  1. We're trained to overvalue hard skills and undervalue natural abilities — because hard skills are measurable and certificated. Inherent strengths rarely come with a qualification.

  2. Things that come easily feel not valuable. Real value, the thinking goes, requires effort. So the things you do effortlessly become invisible — to you and everyone around you.

  3. Your CV is a transaction document. It tells employers what you've done, filtered through what you thought they wanted to hear. It is not an honest inventory of your capabilities.

WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH

Your audit delivers four real outputs:

🎯 Your recurring strength theme — the pattern that shows up across all five questions, the through-line of your natural genius.

Your Superpower Statement — a one-sentence description of what you do when you're at your absolute best. Usable immediately.

🔍 Your blind spots surfaced — the strengths you've been dismissing for years, now visible and impossible to unsee.

🗺️ Your raw material for what's next — the foundation you need to start directing your career with intention rather than luck.

WHAT CHANGES

What changes when you finally see yourself clearly:

💼 Job applications — stop applying for roles because you could do them. Start filtering for roles that actually use what you're brilliant at.

🗣️ How you talk about yourself — replace "I'm a [job title]" with a story that leads with your actual strengths, in interviews, on LinkedIn, in every room.

🌱 Career direction — you now have the raw material to build a career that fits, not one you've been doing despite the fit.

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