Transferable skills
Transferable skills are skills you’ve gained throughout your academic / professional experience which can be ‘transfered’ to any other position. Example of transferable skills include: communication, presentation and management.
Transferable skills are particluarly useful for recent graduates or people with minimal work experience. You should disect information from your career / academic achievements / voluntary employment / hobbies to demonstrate skills such as:
- Your ability to interact with people from all backgrounds / levels of hierarchy
- Situations where you demonstrated a sense of tact and diplomacy to resolve concerns
- When you presented ideas in an objective way
- Your ability to build and maintain relationships
- Situations where you managed time and resources to satisfy demands / time constraints
- Your ability to delegate tasks
- Your ability to sell / promote ideas and / or products