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Jobs in the General Public Administration of the Basque Country were analyzed on the occasion of functional analysis implementation (Gorriti, 2003; Office for the Modernization of the Public Administration, 1998). As a step in the job analysis process, a number of interviews were carried out to analyze the representative tasks in each job. The interviews yielded 1,410 cognitive skill descriptors and 1,344 social skill descriptors. Based on semantic similarity criteria, five human resources experts reduced the number of descriptors to 94 and 65 respectively, without losing any meaning. This paper checks the semantic consistency of these latter descriptors according to the Content Validity Ratio (CVS) (Lawshe, 1975). Data analysis identified which descriptors to keep and which of them needed to be modified or rejected. As a result of this second analysis, 30 cognitive skill descriptors and 26 social skill descriptors were left. These final descriptors will be the base for further studies in an attempt to identify a factor structure and develop a taxonomy of mental skills on one side and social skills on the other side concerning the employees of the General Public Administration of the Basque Country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]