Personal transferable skills
Personal Transferable Skills
What are they?
Personal transferable skills are developed through your education, work, hobby, social, and other life experiences, which can be recognised, developed, and applied across a number of setting and contexts. Personal skills are unique to each person and have a particularly valuable contribution to make in career planning and getting a job.
Example of identifying your personal transferable skills and how well you can demonstrate them.
Household skills:
Working on the house hold budget, shopping, paying rent, electricity, and the day to day bills all add up to cash handling skills, show that you know how to plan and make decisions.
Can you assemble kit furniture? If the answer is yes than you can follow directions, read and work on technical things.
Communication skills:
Who organises the family functions, birthday parties, Christmas dinners and other family gatherings? Does every one turn to you in a crisis? Are you the one people ask to help them fill out forms and applications? If you answer yes to the above questions than here are some of the transferable skills that you have: Leadership, record management, listening, counselling, organisational, writing and spelling skills.
Community skills:
Do you assist with school functions, are you on the school committee, do you assist in writing the school newsletter, have you ever coached a sports team, taught children how to cook or garden?
Then here are some more interesting transferable skills: Training, teaching, motivating, instructing, leadership and public relations.
Hobbies and interests skills:
Do you take photos, are you the one who holds the video camera at sporting or social events, are you good at playing cards and board games, do you collect things, can you work out electronic games?
You have great visual, creative, artistic, numeracy strategic thinking, and attention to details skills.