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Directions: Review the categories of transferable skills below. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but
allows you to take stock of some of the more common skills employees value. Circle any skills you have. After
you have circled all the skills you have, go through and put a check mark next to any skills that will be valuable
in your chose career field, and need to work on. Highlight your top-ten skills to complete the final part of this
exercise.
Human Relations
being sensitive
counseling
advocating
coaching
providing care
speaking effectively
writing concisely
listening attentively
expressing ideas
facilitating discussion
providing appropriate
mentoring
conveying feelings
negotiating
empathizing
perceiving nonverbal
interpersonal skills
facilitating group
feedback
messages
persuading
process
describing feelings
active listening
interviewing
motivating
editing
summarizing
analyzing
Communication
promoting
composing
effective communication
thinking visually
in groups
making presentations
negative consequences
of actions
conceptualizing
making decisions
public
leading
disagreeing
solving problems
meeting deadlines
supervising
motivating
coordinating tasks
assuming responsibility
setting priorities
teaching
interpreting policy,
professionally
regulations, etc.
anticipating problems
creating images
designing programs
creating images
improvising
resolving conflict
mediating
recruiting
organizing
determining policy
giving directions
following directions
defining needs
investigating
gathering information
formulating hypotheses
calculating and
comparing
developing a theory
observing
identifying sources
outlining
creating ideas
identifying resources
critical thinking
predicting and
forecasting
setting goals
analyzing ideas
analyzing data
solving problems
After you have identified your top-ten transferable skills, explain where you learned that skill, and provide an
example of how you used that skill in a work or academic environment.
Skill
Learned from
Used