As an RA, you would be involved in many kinds of tasks that call for different skills. No one is likely to have all these skills on the first day of the job; that’s what learning is for! Here are some descriptions of different tasks, demands, and skills that the job might require.
Please rank-order these from those that you are most to least comfortable with.
1) Attention to detail, 2) Writing, 3) Programming, 4) Tolerance for sometimes repetitive work, 5) Interacting with other people, 6) Organizing large quantities of information, 7) Independence (e.g., the ability to figure something hard out on your own), 8) Working against a deadline
