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