We usually think of transferrable skills in the workplace as involving people or things. When we sell things, train or teach, we use our people skills. While using our data collection or budget skills involves working with things. These are the types of skill categories that can be developed and used in many different job and career settings. If you want to keep yourself marketable and to protect against down times in your business, industry or field, stay focused on developing your transferrable skills.
In developing budgetary skills, think about the things you track and the type of tools and resources you use in do so. How do you remind yourself about upcoming suspense dates? How large is your budget? How much have you saved? These are important questions to ask and in determining the answers, you should have a supply of accomplishments to list in your resume or job application and in speaking about your strengths at a job interview.
People skills are very much in demand and involve all sorts of categories that are useful in many types of business and fields. Have you been in a public relations role? If so, what did you promote or explain to the benefit of the organization you were working for? If you wrote a newsletter, what were some of the topics and did you become a mini expert in some subject that is in demand, or that you might be recognized as someone to “go to” for answers or knowledge.
Some of the skills most often sought by employers:
Communications (written, listening, oral)
Learning (willingness to learn and teach yourself; lifelong learner)
Diversity (work well with all ethnic groups and cultures)
Checkout this list of employer-friendly skills on Facebook.
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