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What are Transferable Skills?
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Transferable Skills
Presented by
UCC Careers Office
What are Transferable Skills?
• Transferable skills are the skills you acquire during any
activity in your life – that can be applied at a later stage in
other situations – e.g. they are transferable.
• You can acquire these skills through all sorts of activities
– employment, projects, voluntary work, hobbies, sports,
almost any area of your life.
Skill Progression
Ability to integrate into and work in different
teams in different environments
to reach team goals & objectives
Demonstrate
Production Line – Team of 12,
Deadlines, Co-operation,
Weekly Progress Team Meetings
Transferred to
Industry (skill match)
Demonstrate
Group project – Team of 4,
Deadline 2 months, delegating tasks
based on others strengths and abilities,
Insight into team dynamics
Why are they so highly sought by
employers?
Transferable Skill Cycle
Why is Skills Analysis Necessary?
Transferable Skills Set
Working with a Job Specification
Emphasising your transferable skills in
your CV and Covering Letter
Why are Skills sought by Employers?
From the employers perspective once you have
acquired a skill you then have the capacity to
transfer it into their organisation and develop it
further e.g. Skill Progression.
Therefore, when employers shortlist from CV and
from Interview they are looking for concrete
evidence of the skills you have developed that are
transferable and applicable to their organisation
and work culture e.g. Skill Match
Why is Skills Analysis Necessary?
Skills Developed
Team Skills College:
As you progress through your degree you are already acquiring
Environment
Sports – Soccer/Rugby
a number of these job skills.
Knowing how to Learn - uses efficient learning techniques
Demonstrate to acquire and apply new ideas and concepts e.g. lecturers
U16, U18, UCC soccer
club, weekly team training, Interpersonal Skills - working on teams, communicating with
pull together to achieve people at different levels, teaching others, leading, negotiating,
goals!
presenting, working well with people from diverse backgrounds
Self-Management - assesses self accurately, sets personal
Transferred to
UCC / Course goals, monitors progress and exhibits self-control
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 Numerical Ability - the use of mathematics to Work Experience:
communicate a point precisely and how to use data to
support an argument
Transfer of existing skills into industry
Work with qualified people in your field
Problem-solving - choice of appropriate methods of
Each role will allow you to acquire and develop job skills
solutions and implements plan of action
Reflecting and recording these skills will allow you to
Project Planning - initial concept, risk analysis, task draw on them at a later stage as part of your job search
management, time management, collaboration – strategy.
deadlines
Task/Activity Skills / Level
Teamwork - working with others in both small and large Contribution Made Learning Outcome
groups, having an awareness of team dynamics,
contributing to group objective

Transferable Skills Set People

Willingness to Learn Analytical Ability
Commitment Flexibility/Adaptability Collaborating
Dependability/Reliability Initiative
Team-work
Communication Skills Can Summarise Key Issues Instructing
Negotiating
Co-operation Logical Argument
Drive/Energy Numeracy
Self Management Persuading
Cope with Pressure/Deadlines Supervising
Desire to Achieve
/Motivation Time Management
Problem Solving Ability Research Skills Taking instructions
Team Member

Data Other
Setting Up
Synthesizing

Controlling Precision
Coordinating Working
Innovating

Manipulating Operating
Compiling,
Analysing
Computing

Handling
Measuring Assembly
Evaluating

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 Heineken Ireland
Job Specification - Accounts
Assistant
Responsibilities:
z Reporting to Group Finance Operations Manager in Cork
z Preparation of financial data for input into the general ledger

z Preparation of supplementary data for inclusion in monthly

Administration report packs
z Provide cover for team members (accounts payable,
accounts receivable, accrual and prepayment preparation,
balance sheet reconciliation)
Group Reporting:
z Assisting in preparation of quarterly forecasts

z Assisting in implementation of new reporting formats

Other: My Skills
z General office duties and administration Job or Activity Cashier/Clerk - Credit Union
z Assist in collation and presentation of information for ad hoc Task Skills Demonstrate
projects (cost reviews, systems reviews etc.)
Responsible for Numerical skills Summer 2002
lodgements and Attention to detail Worked as part of
Requirements:
cash payments Communication skills a team of 10
z Numeric skills
Working to deadlines
z Ability to work in a timely and accurate manner
Updated client Computer skills
z Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate
accounts to reflect Concrete
effectively with people at different levels
paid and outstanding examples of skills
z Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
loan amounts developed
z Familiar with computers

Collation of data for

month end report

Emphasising your Transferable Skills

The use of transferable skills should pervade
your job search and be a key factor in your
resume, cover letter and interview strategies.
SKILL MATCH
Analysising the company and job specification.
What key job skills are they looking for?
Where have I developed these particular skills?
Demonstrate with concrete examples.
Target CV and Covering Letter to show a Skill
Match.