You are applying what you already know about transferable skills. Lesson 16 asked you to show one skill in three contexts. If that list is missing or empty, pick three skills you can evidence today from a real shift, match, class project, or volunteer moment.

A strength here is not a feeling. It is a skill you can prove with a dated moment. By the end of this lesson you will hold three short SAR entries (nine clear lines) in your Strong Skills Evidence document in the Strand 1.1 folder. If that file does not exist yet, create it now with that filename.

Before you write, stake a position on five claims about skills evidence. Mark each true or false on what you honestly think now. You will come back to these ideas when you annotate a strong sample and when you draft your own SAR lines.

1. Slogan lines such as I am a team player are enough skills evidence.
2. Only trophies, medals, or certificates count as a Result.
3. A strength is a skill you can already show with a real occasion.
4. The Action line must show what you did with clear verbs, not adjectives.
5. Situation lines can skip the date and place if the story feels obvious to you.

Key terms for today: Situation/Action/Result (three-line evidence), skills evidence (a checkable moment), strength (a skill you can already show).

Read Aoife's three-line skills evidence about a real school fundraiser. Label each stretch as Situation, Action, or Result. When the class is ready, reveal the model and notice where you agreed and where you did not.

The test you are learning: the Action must show the skill, not claim it. If you only see a slogan, the entry is not ready for a portfolio.

Open your Strong Skills Evidence document in the Strand 1.1 folder. If it does not exist yet, create it now with that exact filename. Choose three transferable skills you already listed as strong (from Lesson 16 if you have it). If you have no list yet, pick three skills you can evidence today from a real shift, match, class project, or volunteer moment.

Write in your Strong Skills Evidence file, not in the lesson page. Use the shape check below only as a model of one block, then draft all three blocks in the portfolio document.

For each skill write one Situation sentence, one Action sentence, and one Result sentence (nine lines total). Use Aoife's shape, not her story. Every Situation needs a when and a where. Every Action must start from what you did. Every Result must name something a reader could check. If you cannot find a moment for a skill, swap it for one you can evidence today.

Under the three blocks, add one final line: which entry is strongest, and why the Action shows the skill rather than claims it.

Case you are working from: you are preparing mini-portfolio evidence for a realistic next step (part-time job, apprenticeship interest form, or summer role). A shortlisting reader who has never met you should be able to use these three entries.

Today you applied transferable-skill work as checkable evidence, not opinion.

• You tested common claims about what counts as skills evidence
• You labelled Situation, Action and Result on a strong sample entry
• You drafted three SAR entries (nine lines) in your Strong Skills Evidence document
• You used the rule that an Action must show the skill rather than claim it

Next lesson turns to transferable skills that still need work, and ties that growth plan to a real dated occasion.