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:
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- Know the difference between skill and talent
- Know the difference between skill and talent
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- 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
- Related External Links:
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- MySkills MyFuture
- O*Net Crosswalk Search (Translates college major to occupation)
- Skills Engine (Convert unstructured text into high quality skill data for any application)
- Article: “Careers with Options: Occupations with Jobs in Many Industries”
- Good example of job description highlighting transferable skills: FBI agent seeking teaching background
- Additional Related Topics – Articles:
- Additional Assessments for Identifying Transferable Skills:
- 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)
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