Transferable Skills are skills acquired from past jobs, volunteering, hobbies or life experience. Use the list below to find three of your transferable skills and back them up with examples.
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Creative, Artistic Skills
- Artistic
- Dance, body movement
- Draw, sketch, render
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- Expressive
- Music Appreciation
- Perform, act
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- Play Instruments
- Present artistic ideas
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Dealing with Data
- Analyze data or facts
- Audit records
- Budget
- Calculate, compute
- Classify data
- Compare/inspect/record facts
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- Compile
- Detail-oriented
- Evaluate
- Investigate
- Keep financial records
- Locate information
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- Manage money
- Negotiate
- Observe
- Research
- Synthesize
- Take inventory
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Key Transferable Skills
- Accept responsibility
- Control budgets
- Increase sales or efficiency
- Instruct others
- Manage money or budgets
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- Manage people
- Meet deadlines
- Meet the public
- Negotiate
- Organize/manage projects
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- Plan
- Solve problems
- Speak in public
- Supervise others
- Written communications
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Leadership
- Arrange social functions
- Competitive
- Decisive
- Delegate
- Direct others
- Explain things to others
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- Get results
- Mediate problems
- Motivate people
- Negotiate agreements
- Plan
- Run meetings
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- Self-controlled
- Self motivated
- Solve problems
- Take risks
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Other Transferable Skills
- Assemble things
- Build or inspect things
- Construct or repair buildings
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- Drive or operate vehicles
- Good with my hands
- Operate tools/machinery
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- Repair things
- Use complex equipment
- Use my hands
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Using Words, Ideas
- Articulate
- Communicate verbally
- Correspond with others
- Create new ideas
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- Design
- Edit
- Inventive
- Logical
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- Remember information
- Research
- Speak in public
- Write clearly
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Working with People
- Administer
- Care for
- Confront others
- Counsel people
- Demonstrate
- Diplomatic
- Help others
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- Kind
- Listen
- Negotiate
- Outgoing
- Patient
- Persuade
- Pleasant
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- Sensitive
- Sociable
- Supervise
- Tolerant
- Tough
- Trust
- Understand
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