Transferable Skills - the Foundation of Professional Success

What are Transferable Skills? These are skills you pick up in one employment setting that you can then seamlessly transfer to your next job. Transferable skills are ones that apply in all professions. They are the foundation skills of all the professional success you will experience in this and other careers you may pursue over the years.

 No matter what the job or profession is, these skills can make the difference between success and failure. Transferable skills are not industry specific. You will use many transferable skills in every job you ever have.

 Here are 7 of the most common transferable skills:

 ·         Technical: Staying current with the essential technical and technology skills of your chosen career path is the keystone of professional growth.

·         Communication: verbal, listening, writing, and technological communication (choosing how you communicate appropriately to your audience).

·         Critical Thinking: the application of all your problem-solving skills to uncover issues related to a particular challenge

·         Multitasking: sound time management and organization skills.

·         Teamwork: working efficiently and respectfully with others who have totally different responsibilities, backgrounds, objectives, and areas of expertise.

·         Creativity: the frame of reference you have for your work, profession, and industry. You see the patterns that lie behind challenges, you connect the dots and come up with solutions.

·         Leadership: the most complex transferable skill because leadership only happens when a fully integrated combination of all other transferable skills come into play. You accept responsibility, but the team gets the credit. When your actions inspire others to think more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are on your way to becoming a leader.

Examples of your application of transferable skills can be used in your resume, cover letter, and used as illustrative answers to questions in interviews. Development of transferable skills will be repaid with job offers, better job security and improved professional horizons.

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