The following is a listing of Core Competencies for the Personal Property Management Professional.

Personal Property Management Career Development:

Core Competencies

Sample Core Competencies 

Logistics Management

• Familiar with applicable policies and regulations relating to property disposition.
• Understands supply chain management concepts, their application in federal agencies; and, inventory management concepts, principles, and practices.
• Applies effective distribution processes in regard to reuse, transfer, disposal, sales with consideration for environmental and demilitarization issues, as appropriate.  

Business Skills

• Understands basic business terms, economic concepts and principles, and basic marketing and market analysis techniques.
• Understands and applies project and financial management, and managerial accounting concepts, principles, and practices.

Analytical Skills

• Uses basic statistical analysis methods to collect, compile, and analyze business information.
• Applies problem-solving methods to analyze organizational, process, or policy problems and assesses the impact of options or conclusions reached on business processes.

Information Technology

• Effectively uses a personal computer to access software applications for sending email, searching for information, performing E-business transactions, and managing files, data, and information.
• Understands and uses the architecture of federal government websites, and how they are used by customers.
• Uses applicable information systems for property accountability and disposition to perform job responsibilities.

Interpersonal Skills

• Performs effectively in a team environment through coaching support and respect of other team members, work ethic, cultural diversity, personal integrity, and the effective application of conflict resolution techniques when necessary.

Communications Skills

• Practices typical communication techniques including active listening, effective writing, negotiation, and clear transmission of thoughts.
• Communicates clearly when speaking in meetings, during face to face discussions, when delivering formal presentations, and when promoting ideas, concepts, and services to internal and external customers.

Customer Service

• Understands customer's working environmental, values, and service expectations and interacts to accurately assess and define requirements and decisively resolve issues.
• Develops creative, tailored solutions to meet specific customer requirements and follows up to ensure services provided meet expectations.

Contracting

• Understands fundamental contracting concepts, principles, and practices sufficiently to develop complete and accurate functional requirements, Statements of Work, and Performance of Work statements.
• Understands Contracting Officer's Representative responsibilities and authorities.

Leadership

• Demonstrated commitment to ethics, professionalism, flexibility, self-motivation, and technical competence.

Property Disposal Subjects

• Utilization
• Donation
• Sale
• Export Control