Identifying Your Transferable Skills

Workshop:  Identifying Your Transferable Skills:  Are You a Team Player, Problem Solver, Leader, or Great Communicator?

• Overview:

Participants will learn what transferable skills are. They will know how to identify many transferable skills they have developed as a result of their innate abilities, education, work experience, and life experiences.  Participants will also receive information about how to find potential jobs/careers that need such transferable skills. 

• Learning Outcomes:

 Participants will:

• Know the difference between skill and talent

• Know the difference between technical skills and transferable skills

• Know why transferable skills are important

• Know how talents can be developed into skill

• Understand how to develop transferable skill

• Identify current transferable skills

• Identify desired transferable skills

• Know how to identify which jobs need specific transferable skills

• Workshop Presenter:

  • Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, FCD-I

• Downloads:

  • Mt. SAC

    • PowerPoint File

    • Workshop Handout

  • General

    • PowerPoint File

    • Workshop Handout
      

• Related External Links:

• MySkills MyFuture

  1. O*Net Crosswalk Search (Translates college major to occupation)

  2. Skills Engine (Convert unstructured text into high quality skill data for any application)

  3. Article: “Careers with Options: Occupations with Jobs in Many Industries”

  4. Good example of job description highlighting transferable skills: FBI agent seeking teaching background

• Additional Related Topics – Articles:

  • Career Development Benefits to Volunteering ​(develop transferable skills)

  • Liberal Arts in the Data Age

• Additional Assessments for Identifying Transferable Skills:
  

• Clifton Strengths (aka: transferable skills) – Understanding the assessment tool

• StrengthsFinder – buy online

• Or buy the book – (Buy new copy only! A used copy will likely have the access code already used!)

• StrengthsQuest — StrengthsFinder for College Students

• Career Applications for StrengthsFinder

• Related External Videos:

  • Skill and Ability Videos (demonstration of specific transferable skills)

  • Video:  H.R. Recruiter and the English Major

  • Sequel Careers  (Changing careers without starting over)

• Related In-House Handouts:

• Rapidly-Changing World

• Understanding Labor Market Trends

• Generational Values

• Decision-Making Variables

• Generalist vs. Specialist

• Happenstance

• True Self

• Life-Long Learning Options

• The Journey

• Reaching Career Goals

• So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?

• Unemployed Resources

• Volunteer Interests