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Identifying Your Transferrable Skills

Identifying Your Transferrable Skills. Kathleen E. High, M.Ed. Adjunct Career Counselor, Career Planning Center Cypress College. What Are “Transferrable” Skills?. There are two types of job skills: Technical Skills Skills needed to do a specific job:

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Identifying Your Transferrable Skills

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  1. Identifying Your Transferrable Skills Kathleen E. High, M.Ed. Adjunct Career Counselor, Career Planning Center Cypress College

  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 (JAVA) • 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 Transferrable 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KIiVFCZlV0&feature=player_embedded

  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 Time/ Natural Talent alone Effort: Practice of acquired skills through education/training Scenario 2: Practice/Skill without Talent Ability to reach full potential at activity over time Time/ Natural Talent alone Scenario 3: Talent Combined with Practice/Skill Effort: Practice of acquired skills through education/training Ability to reach full potential at activity over time Time/ Natural Talent 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 Planning Center • Workshop: Career Assessment & Interpretation • Make Appointment To See A Career Counselor • Classes: • COUN 141: Career Exploration • COUN 150: Academic & Life Success • COUN 151: Career & Life Planning • Handouts: • Generational Values • True Self

  8. Assessments to identify skills • MicroSkills • Assessment available in the Career Planning 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 Planning Center) • http://strengths.gallup.com/110659/Homepage.aspx • Values in Action • (Not available through the Career Service Center) • http://viacharacter.org/www/

  9. A Place To Begin: MicroSkills • Identifies 72 potential transferrable skills in areas of: • Self Management • Situational Skills • Detail Skills • Movement Skills • Operational Skills • Numerical Skills • Communication Skills • Conceptual Skills • Judgment Skills • Reasoning Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Leadership Skills

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

  11. How to develop your transferrable 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 career counselor • In the Career Planning Center • (714) 484-7120 • Student Services Bldg. 2nd Floor

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