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Transferable Skills
A lot of people draw a blank when asked to list their transferable skills because they don't understand exactly what that
term covers. Don't let that happen to you! Use our list of transferable skills to help you identify and articulate the many skills you have
to offer your next employer.
A transferable skill is almost any ability that could be put to use in a variety of work and life situations. They include:
Communication Skills
- Effective speaking
- Effective writing
- Effective listening
- Conveying information
- Explaining ideas
- Explaining feelings and emotions
- Understanding nonverbal communication
- Persuading
- Reporting
- Leading meetings & group discussions
- Interviewing
- Editing
- Proofreading
- Formatting
- Visual presentation (art, acting, etc.)
- Foreign language & sign language skills
Intellectual Skills
- Using information resources
- Gathering information
- Categorizing data
- Analyzing data
- Computing
- Comparing, contrasting, and combining information and data
- Checking for accuracy
- Constructing & testing a hypothesis
- Identifying patterns, problems, causes
- Defining needs
- Determining priorities
- Forecasting possibilities and outcomes
- Conceiving solutions to problems
- Goal setting
- Determining measures of progress and success
- Evaluating program effectiveness
Interpersonal Skills
- Establishing and maintaining effective relationships
- Being sensitive to others' views and concerns
- Extending appropriate support
- Team building
- Problem solving
- Motivating
- Leading
- Delegating effectively
- Correcting effectively
- Training, teaching, mentoring
- Representing a group or organizational views/needs/concerns
- Selling
- Cross-cultural skills
- Effective rapport with children, the elderly, people w/special needs, etc.
Organizational Skills
- Conceiving & communicating ideas
- Coordinating work
- Handling details
- Managing group efforts
- Resolving conflicts
- Identifying problems & proposing solutions
- Managing resources
- Budgeting
- Setting priorities and balancing competing needs
- Balancing organizational/public/social needs against individual needs
- Keeping appropriate parties informed of plans and progress
Personal Skills
- Time management
- Resource management
- Learning new information & skills
- Adapting to new environments
- Networking
- Goal setting
- Making and implementing decisions
- Ability to think & act independently
- Taking initiative
- Independent learning
Creative Skills
- Conceiving novel solutions and approaches to problems
- Combining existing materials, ideas, information in new ways
- Seeing problems, patterns, or opportunities
- Improving existing products, procedures, etc. through innovation
Physical Skills
- Strength
- Agility
- Dexterity
- Hand-eye coordination
- Balance
- Endurance
- Keen eyesight
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Keen hearing
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