Transferable Skills

 

1)    Basic skills: using the everyday skills that keep things moving

• reading/proofreading
• writing/taking notes
• listening
• speaking
• memory and concentration

2)    Interpersonal: working with other people on the job

• communication
• cooperating as a team member
• working with clients/customers
• leadership

3)    Information: gathering and making use of information

• evaluating information
• organizing/interpreting information
• communicating information orally or in writing
• processing information (as on a computer)

4)    Systems: understanding interrelationships

• social systems (structures of human relationships)
• each company's organizational system
• systems of technology—how pieces of equipment work together

5)    Technology: working with various technologies

• choosing equipment and/or procedures to use in a given situation
• understanding how equipment and/or procedures work
• using equipment and procedures properly

6)    Thinking skills: using your brain power to figure out your world

• creative thinking
• decision-making
• problem-solving
• knowing how to learn
• visualizing
• reasoning

7)    Personal Qualities: displaying traits that show you to be valuable and trustworthy

• self-knowledge
• self-esteem
• integrity and honesty
• responsibility and commitment
• self-management, including self-assessment, goal-setting
• motivation
• appearance
• prioritizing

8)    Resources: identifying, organizing, planning, and efficiently using available resources

• managing time
• managing money
• managing material (items)
• managing people