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Mastering Transferable Skills for Career Success

Learn how to leverage crossover skills - such as communication, leadership, and organizational abilities - that can be transferred from one job to another. Discover the importance of timing and showcasing these skills effectively. Identify key transferable skills like managing change, effective communication, interpersonal skills, and leadership traits. Understand how to brand yourself based on the skills employers seek, and how to emphasize results over just skills in your job search.

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Mastering Transferable Skills for Career Success

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  1. Maine State LibraryLeveraging Crossover Skills

  2. What are Transferable Skills? • Transfer from one job to another • Number of them • Mention them at the right time in the right place • Examples: • Analyze data • Delegation • Implement Change

  3. Informational Interview • Call for an appointment • Don’t ask for too much time • Ask them for resources

  4. How do you intend to Brand yourself? • What transferable skills are you going to focus on? • What is the employer looking for? • Like a Promise

  5. #1 Transferable Skill • Managing Change • Recognize what isn’t working • Willingness to modify and adapt • Motivate others • Think outside the “box” • How adaptable are you?

  6. Communication • Effective Speaking • Effective writing • Persuading • Reporting

  7. Intellectual • Intellectual Skills • Gathering Information • Identifying patterns, Problems, and Causes • Analyzing data • Defining needs

  8. Interpersonal • Interpersonal Skills • Team building • Selling • Leading • Problem solving • Training/Mentoring

  9. Organizational Skills • Resolving conflicts • Managing resources • Budgeting • Coordinating work

  10. Leading • Ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal • Leadership traits: • Organization • Problem-solving • Innovation

  11. Team Building • Team development • Build consensus • Develop cooperation • Promote collaboration • Produce results • Goals • Meet • Exceed

  12. Sell Results Instead of Skills • Recruiters look for results • Focus on benefits of your skills • Provide specific achievements • $ • %

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