Identify Your Transferable Skills

Over the years, we have assembled a list of transferable skills that are important in a wide variety of careers. In the checklist that follows, the skills listed as "Key Transferable Skills" are those that are consider to be most important for success on the job/career. These skills are also those that are often required in jobs with more responsibility and higher pay, so you should emphasize these skills if you have them.

The remaining transferable skills are grouped into categories that may be helpful to you. Go ahead and check each skill you are strong in, and then double-check the skills you want to use in your career. When you are finished, you should have checked 10 to 20 skills at least once.

|Descriptor |Definition |
|Skills |Skills are commonly understood to refer to an ability to perform a specific task. |
|Competencies |Competency is used to refer to an observable behavior performed to a specified level and therefore provides a basis |
| |for the assessment of performance. |
|Attributes, qualities and|These refer to those capabilities of an individual in most instances although “characteristics” is sometimes used to |
| |describe a workplace/job-specific requirement. |
|characteristics | |

Transferable Skills Inventory

Hard skills are skills that you can learn in a class or be