Transferable skills:

Transferable skills are proficiencies that are useful in a variety of jobs and industries. Transferable skills can be used to position your past experience when applying for a new job, especially if it’s in a different industry. For example, employers often look for candidates with strong communication skills. If you’ve developed the ability to easily share information to and from colleagues, you can apply them in any workplace.

My top 3 transferrable skills:

• Teamwork: Teamwork skills involve the ability to work with others towards a common goal. Effective teamwork requires several other qualities such as empathy, active listening and strong communication.
• Adaptability: Adaptability skills are used to continue working towards goals even as teams, projects, management or products change. Employers hire flexible candidates who can quickly learn new skills and processes to ensure work is done quickly, efficiently and with a positive attitude.
• Leadership: Leadership skills include traits like strong communication, relationship building and dependability. You can transfer leadership skills to many different industries because most employers value people who can organize teams to reach shared goals.

How I get & how I apply:

• Teamwork: Teamwork skills were developed initially during the academic’s projects. In addition to the accomplishment of the project objective, I understood the contribution that came as a result of teamwork.  Various projects were done with different groups. It helped to learn, how to build a good and healthy relationship with people with different skills and perspective. The skill developed will definitely help for the collaboration and conflict resolution, while working in a team.
•  Adaptability: Working in different groups for different works improved the capability of adapting the changes happened for the group and the members. Working in a larger team after the work experience from a small firm helped to be more patient and deal the situation with a positive attitude and flexibility. Moreover, I believe that it would be easier to get adapted to the changes that may happen with the work atmosphere and to a team.
• Leadership: I attained majority of my leadership skills while undertaking the responsibility of teams for the volunteering activities. I was able to det a goal and build a team to achieve the goal. This developed the interpersonal skills and risk-taking quality in me. I hope that the leadership skills will help me to take initiative to do a task in my future career.