What are Transferable Skills?

Transferable skills are general skills you can use in many jobs.You gain these skills from previous jobs,projects ,voluntary work and interests .they enable you to be adaptable and flexible in case you need to change your job.

Career expert Richard Nelson Bolles pioneered the idea of transferable skills in his perennial bestseller What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. According to Bolles, we are all born with skills we take from job to job. These transferable skills can be broken down into three categories: people (communicating, teaching, coaching and supervising), data (record keeping, researching, translating and compiling data) and things (operating computers/equipment, assembling and repairing).

 

If you take the time to identify your transferable skills, you can convince employers that you have the core skills necessary to excel in your new career choice.

Transferable skills are the ones a person has already gained from his past professional or personal experience, i.e. jobs, volunteer work, hobbies, diversified interests, sports. They are called transferable because a person can use them in every position he fills as they are an asset to his resume and a tool that helps him adapt to varied environments.

Transferable skills are skills and abilities relevant and helpful across different areas of life: socially, professionally and at school. They are ‘portable skills’.

People usually think about their transferable skills when applying for a job or when thinking about a career change.  Employers often look for people who can demonstrate a good set of transferable skills

They are general skills you can use in many jobs. You gain these skills from previous jobs, projects, voluntary work, sport, your home life, hobbies, and interests. They enable you to be adaptable and flexible in case you need to change your job.

The skills gained from ones own life experiences, from the job positions previously handled etc etc are transferable skills.They enable a person to be adaptable and flexible in situations of choice.

leadership, communications, interpersonal, analyzing and leadership are the most common skills that one can bring along with him to his new work space.

Transferable skills are general skills you can use in many jobs.You gain these skills from previous jobs,projects ,voluntary work and interests .

Transferable skills are the skills you acquire and transfer to future employment settings

• Commitment and motivation
• Interpersonal skills: can you relate with others and form good working relationships?
• Communicating effectively: can you take and give instruction?
• Self-awareness: knowing your strengths – and weaknesses
• Management and leadership
• Decision-making ability
• Organization, research and thinking ahead
• Punctuality
• Good time management
• Attention to detail
• Ability and willingness to enlist help when necessary
• Willingness to accept responsibility

Transferable Skills examples are Interpersonal,it relates with others and motivate people. Organizational Skills,should be multi tasking. Leadership it includes decision making and has the ability to initiating work. Communication Skills it is very important when it comes in training,presenting and following instructions as well.

common skills that are needed for any position in different fields.