Transferable Skills

Transferable Skills

You have numerous talents and skills! Let’s take a few minutes to determine all the abilities you do have to offer any employer.

This chart below, listing a great many skills, is a terrific starting point. It’s comprehensive but not exhaustive, so do record any specialties or unique talents you possess. You likely have technical skills or specialty talents not listed here so be sure to add them to your list.

Be complete and thorough as you proceed through this list. When finished, you’ll be amazed by the number of skills you possess and can sell to an employer. Check off every skill you have.

SKILLS YOU COULD OFFER AN EMPLOYER

POSSESS TYPE OF SKILL

Written skills that effectively communicate in correspondences/reports/emails

Writing proposals, manuscripts, manuals

Writing - articles, publications, newsletters

Write technical materials

Work with animals

Word-processing skills

Visualize ideas or future trends

Visionary

Using multimedia equipment

Use sophisticated equipment, instruments

Use active listening skills to draw people out and help express their thoughts

Updating files

Understanding technical manuals, terminology

Tutor others

Trouble-shooting

Treating ill people

Training others to perform a task

Tolerate interruptions, inconveniences

Time management

Testing others

Terminate employees

Taking risks

Take accurate measurements

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Tabulate information or data

Systematizing

Systematize

System planning

Survey land

Survey for information or opinions

Supervising others

Supervising installations

Supervising construction projects

Streamlining costs, systems or procedures

Strategic planning

Speak, write, understand another language

Sort objects, materials, or papers

Singing

Showing attention to details

Setting up demonstrations, shows, exhibits, displays

Setting realistic objectives for self and others

Set up systems, services, or programs

Set quality standards

Selling products or services

Self-motivating/self-starter

Screen applicants

Scheduling others

Run financial simulations

Resourcefulness

Research

Repairing mechanical devices

Rehabilitate people

Regulate things

Reduction of costs

Redesign tools or equipment

Reconcile financial records

Read and use reference materials

Quality improvement

Quality assurance




Purchasing products or services

Public speaking

Providing financial analysis

Providing customer-service

Providing community services

Proposing solutions or making recommendations

Proofread

Promoting products or services

Promoting events

Promote efficiency in others

Project management

Program Management

Producing publications

Producing new products or programs

Producing films or videos

Process improvement through the examination, streamlining, development or design of more efficient or effective ways to perform a task or function

Problem-solving

Print project coordination

Preparing budgets and/or budget management

Possess manual dexterity, eye-hand coordination

Policy-making

Playing music

Planning events

Planning and coordinating meetings

Planning agendas

Plan large scale projects or designs

Persuade others

Performing or acting

Conducting needs assessments

Performing lab work

Perceiving the needs of others

Paying bills

Painting objects

Originate procedures, policies or systems




Organizing work flow for others

Organizing programs

Organizing processes or systems

Organizing people

Order supplies

Operating equipment or machinery

Observing people

Observe and monitor data or things

Negotiation skills to arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions or solutions

Negotiating contracts

Multi-tasking

Monitor machines, equipment, processes

Mobilize resources and people

Merge or combine ideas or systems

Merchandising of product(s)

Mentor others

Mediating between groups

Measure boundaries, sizes, or weights

Managing people and being responsible for them and their workMaking presentations

Making people laugh

Making business deals

Make models

Make layouts

Make connections and bring people together

Legal expertise

Leading an organization

Leading a project

Leading a department or business unit

Keep secrets or confidential information

Justify decisions, or conclusions

Investigating problems

Inventing new products

Interviewing others

Interpret and translate a different language




Interior decorating

Instructing or teach others

Install equipment

Inspecting products/ physical objects

Inform or give out information to others

Influencing others

Index or organize data or information

Improvise

Improvement of a condition, situation, product or process

Improve tools, machines, or equipment

Implementation

Imaginative, with many innovative ideas

Illustrate or depict a product

Identify and seize on opportunities

Hiring employees

Highly creative in applying theory to develop or design new things

Help build or improve the quality of a staff through training, counseling, guidance, and goal objectives

Have undertaken careful, original, systematic study, research and investigation in some field of knowledge to discover or establish facts or principles

Handling contracts and agreements

Handling complaints

Handling community relations

Handle routine or boring tasks

Global thinking

Fundraising

Focusing on project, task, or problem at hand

Fixing or repairing equipment

Financial planning

Fill orders or requests

Facilitating meetings

Expedite, speed up

Execute, implement, get something done

Examining products or processes

Examining and evaluating complex data




Evaluating inventory controls

Estimating space requirements

Estimate cost, distance, size, etc.

Establish policy or procedures

Establish priorities sorting tasks according to order of importance or urgency

Enforcing regulations

Effectively hear what the speaker is attempting to communicate

Editing written words

Drawing or painting a picture or design

Drafting

Doing cost analysis

Dispense medicines

Directing work flow

Direct the process, resources and work to achieve desired results

Diagnosing problems

Developing marketing campaigns/plans

Developing ideas from the thought concept through to completion

Developing financial forecasts/projections

Develop prototypes

Develop and maintain financial tracking systems

Detect problems or errors

Design/plan marketing campaign

Designing buildings

Designing products

Design flyers, brochures, booklets, etc.

Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills

Demonstrate how to do things

Delegating tasks to others

Decorating interiors

Debating an issue

Dealing creatively with colors, spaces, shapes, dimensions, ceramics, art

Curriculum development

Critique or review others’ work

Credit analysis

Creating multimedia products, presentations or designs




Creating graphs and charts

Creating displays

Creating advertising materials or designsCounsel others

Corporate promotions

Copywriting

Cope with deadlines and high stress, pressure

Coordinating services

Control costs

Construct or assembling things

Construct buildings

Conduct statistical analysisConducting quality assurance

Conduct scientific research

Conducting market research

Conceptualize ideas

Composing music

Complete projects or tasks on schedule

Compare objects

Committee work

Collect money

Collaborate with others on a project

Coach others towards improved behavior or performance

Classifying and record data/information

Cash/money management

Calculating/counting/taking inventory

Calculating numerical data

Build things with tools and equipment

Build a cohesive, highly productive team that meets goals on time

Budget time or resources or materials

Bring enthusiasm and energy into group

Being a detail orientated person

Authorize checks/treasury responsibility

Authoring a book

Audit or balance financial information




Assigning specific duties to workers and supervise those actions

Assess the performance of equipment

Assess a person’s performance using equipment

Assemble or collect materials

Approve layouts or designs

Appraisal of property

Applying what others have developed

Analyzing data

Allocate or dispense resources

Advising others

Adjust, arrange, or adapt information

Adapt tools, machinery, and equipment

Adapt to changing situations and needs

Act as liaison, go-between, or intermediary

Accounting

Able to translate ideas into written or visual form for others

Able to summarize and make a brief, concise statement presenting the substance or general idea or main points of a subject

Able to serve as an agent or representative for others; authorized to work and speak on their behalf to accomplish desired results

Able to refer or direct people to appropriate sources of aid and/or information

Able to recruit new employees, membership, subscribers, etc.

Able to prepare either a formal or informal report describing the results of a particular occurrence

Able to prepare a coordinated, timed plan for procedure on a project, which entails making arrangements for events and processes as well as making sure goals or promises are delivered on time

Able to interest others in and/or sell ideas, goods, programs, projects or services

Able to influence the thoughts and actions of others and get results

Able to influence attitudes and ideas of others in favor of a desired point of view

Able to give instructions or lessons enabling others to learn (via explanation, demonstration and/or supervised practice)

Able to give clear verbal and/or written directions

Able to exchange ideas, information and opinions with others to formulate policies and programs




Able to examine a piece of work carefully and detect flaws or errors

Able to evaluate a person’s performance

Able to direct or lead the way to a particular goal or objective

Able to determine or interpret work procedures for a group of workers

Able to determine a goal or goals to be worked toward

Able to design and outline the framework of a new program

Able to bring a program or plan into existence

Able to appraise or determine the quality of, the worth of, and/or the effectiveness of a program or organization

Ability to motivate workers

This list contain more functional skills you can carry over to your new career.

FUNCTIONAL TRANSFERABLE SKILLS FUNCTIONAL TRANSFERABLE SKILLSAdministration Repairing equipment (specify)

Advising/Coaching/Counseling Team building

Financial Analysis Negotiation skills

Data Analysis Accounting skills

Systems Analysis Organizing

Arbitration/Mediation Performing

Artistic Skills Planning

Budget Management Problem Solving

Computer Skills (specify) Process Improvement

Web Design Program/product design

Coordinating Events Program/product developing

Creating new processes Program implementation

Creating systems Program management

Creating new programs Product management

Creating new policy and procedures Product launch

Customer Service Mediation skills

Data Collection Sales

Delegating Promotion

Developing Ideas Public speaking

Documenting Records Purchasing



FUNCTIONAL TRANSFERABLE SKILLS FUNCTIONAL TRANSFERABLE SKILLSEvaluating programs, problems, systems Recruiting

Forecasting Referral screening

Hiring Reporting

Inspecting products or services Representing others

Interpreting Research

Leadership Scheduling

Managing people Supervising

Marketing Tracking

Graphic design Teaching/training/presentation

Operating equipment (specify) Writing

Computer skills: (specify) Technical/Specialized skills: (specify)



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Transferable Skills