1. Identifying Your Transferable Skills
Are You a Team Player, Problem Solver, Leader, or Great Communicator?
Presented by:
Kathleen E. High, M.Ed., CCSP, GCDF-I
Independent Education/Career Consultant
Your Dreams & Goals
Presented to:
Clients of:

2. What Are “Transferrable” Skills?
There are two types of job skills:
Technical Skills
Skills needed to do a specific job:
Nurses knowing how to take blood pressure
Auto mechanics knowing how to overhaul an engine
Computer programmers knowing computer languages
Accountants producing a “Profit & Loss” statement
Transferrable Skills
Skills you can use in many different jobs
Verbal and written communication
Working with people
Using computers and the Internet
Organizing information, data, people or things
Analyzing numbers, trends, cause and effect processes
Trouble shooting and problem solving

3. Why Are Transferable Skills Important?
Transferrable skills:
The true value of a college degree:
Are universal
Make you more employable
Are important to include on your resume
Make you a more attractive candidate
Make you more adaptable
Are necessary in world of job uncertainty
Can help you get jobs in different fields
Video: The Human Resources Recruiter and the English Major

4. How Skills Relate to Career Success

5. Talent vs. Skill
Talent: In-born, natural, does not require much effort
Skill: Developed through training and practice
Q: Is it possible to have both talent and skill in something?
A: Yes: By building on natural talent through education, training and practice

6. Talent vs. Skill to Reach Full Potential
Scenario 1: Talent without Practice/Skill
Ability to reach full potential at activity over time
Natural Talent
Time/
alone
Effort: Practice of acquired skills through education/training
Scenario 2: Practice/Skill without Talent
Effort: Practice of acquired skills through education/training
Natural Talent
Time/
alone
Ability to reach full potential at activity over time
Scenario 3: Talent Combined with Practice/Skill
Ability to reach full potential at activity over time
Natural Talent
Time/
alone
Effort: Practice of acquired skills through education/training

7. How to identify your skills
Personality
Talents
Your Environment:
Upbringing, Generation, Hobbies, etc.
Education, Work, Military Experience, etc.
Follow Up Activities:
Visit Career Service Center
Make Appointment To See A Counselor
Classes:
COUN 2 – College Success Strategies
COUN 5 – Career/Life Planning
COUN 51 – Career Planning
Handouts:
Generational Values
True Self

8. Assessments to Identify Skills
MicroSkills
Assessment available in the Career Services Center
Myers Briggs (MBTI)
Identifies personality and related strengths which can be cultivated into transferrable skills
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey (CISS)
StrengthsFinder
(Not available through the Career Service Center)
Values in Action

9. A Place To Begin: MicroSkills*
Identifies 72 potential transferrable skills in areas of:
Self Management
Communication Skills
Situational Skills
Conceptual Skills
Detail Skills
Judgment Skills
Movement Skills
Reasoning Skills
Operational Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Numerical Skills
Leadership Skills
*An assessment of transferrable skills offered through Eureka
(a career planning database offered by the Career Center)

10. Additional Transferable Skills (not included in MicroSkills)
Adaptability
Multi-lingual
Care Giving
Networking
Diversity
Observation
Driving
Other-focused
Event Planning
Patience
Hospitality
Public Speaking/Performance
Learner
Resourcefulness

11. How to Develop Your Transferable Skills
Create environments that develop skills:
True Self:
Work
Education
Internships
School Activities
Military
Volunteer Opportunities
Leisure Activities
Community Activities
Family Life

12. Wrap Up Need Help? Not Sure What to Do Next?
Make an appointment to see a counselor
In the Counseling Center
(909)
Student Services Center. 2nd Floor