Activity 34
Activity 34
Activity 34
skills checklist
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What You’ve Got. Posted on Sep 29, 2020
you take that next step.
Transferable skills are a core set of These are the skills that help you to
skills and abilities that go beyond a plan, prepare, and get things done in the
particular job or organization – you can workplace, so putting them to use in
use them in almost any role. Great your role is valuable to employers. Here
people skills, for example, will be are some examples of what these skills
valuable to your work whether you’re a involve:
customer service representative or a • Time management: managing
carpenter, a senior executive or an your own time to get the job done.
intern. This is especially useful in fast-
Transferable skills can help you stand paced work environments.
out to employers in your job search or • Research and analytics:
even make a career change – so researching and collecting data,
analyzing, reporting on your
findings and making negotiating, expressing ideas plus
recommendations. speaking in public or to groups.
• Administration and clerical: 3.People skills
efficiently handling tasks like
filing, paperwork and These are the skills that help you
communications including phone or interact and get along with others –
email, plus managing calendars and including co-workers, customers and
appointments. clients. People skills are really valuable
• Financial management: to organizations especially as they place
developing and managing budgets, growing importance on team culture and
keeping financial records, performance. Here are just a few
fundraising or project managing. examples.
• Sales and marketing: marketing
and selling a product or service, or • Co-operation: being able to
influencing behaviour. collaborate, work well with others
• Creative thinking: generating new and effectively contribute to projects
ideas and coming up with or tasks.
innovative solutions to problems. • Empathy: putting yourself in
• Planning: managing yourself, someone else’s shoes to try and
others and available resources with understand or relate to them.
a goal in mind, and creating plans • Patience: the ability to handle
for projects or events. trying situations, repeat processes
• Technology or digital literacy: when necessary, take time to make
being able to use and quickly adapt thoughtful decisions, accept delays
to new technology, programs or or persevere.
tools. • Flexibility: willingness to adapt to a
new situation or change approach
2.Communication skills when needed.
This isn’t a complete list of all the It’s also important to think of how you
transferable skills out there – you may can show examples of specific ways
be able to come up with more that apply you’ve used these transferable skills so
to you. you can talk about them to potential
employers – for example, in an
Identifying these skills and using them interview setting. Our Practice Interview
as selling points in your applications and Builder can help you prepare responses
online profiles will help you to stand to common interview questions and
out. List these transferable skills boost your confidence.
throughout your career history in your
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