Career Services Resource
Personal transferable skills
Use this exercise to determine which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.
Life long learning
Employers may refer to this skill as:
An understanding of continuous improvement
processes
A focus on delivering quality results
Ability to learn new skills
Flexibility to adapt to changes as required by the role
Locate, evaluate, and manage information
Demonstrated ability to understand and operate
in complex organisations
Ability to identify business opportunities
An interest in clients and a desire to help them
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Evaluate own current knowledge
Self-awareness- understand personal strengths and
weaknesses
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Ability to work successfully both independently
and as a member of a team.
A commitment to developing and maintaining
team work
The ability to work both in a multidisciplinary team
environment and independently
Work in a self directed way
Ability to meet responsibilities independently
Ability to plan and execute experimental research
independently
Demonstrated ability to work within a diverse team
structure to reach the most favourable outcome
Ability to work with minimal supervision
Strong leadership skills
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Work cooperatively and constructively
Provide leadership within a team context
Respond confidently to change
Be willing to learn from others
Be flexible and adaptable
Maintain a positive concept of self as capable and
autonomous
Work autonomously & collaboratively
Work collaboratively with different groups
Negotiate solutions when opinions differ
Be a critical thinker
Recognise strengths of other team members
Adapt concepts, skills and materials to new situations
Share responsibility
Recognise when there is a need for change
Identify personal goals and methods to achieve them
Identify the needs of others and build positive
relationships
Constructive criticism
Develop and maintain self esteem
Manage others
Develop and maintain self confidence
Motivate others
Manage stress
Assess and evaluate others
Recognise and manage personal/professional
boundaries
Be assertive
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Career Services Resource
Personal transferable skills
Use this exercise to indicate which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.
Communicate effectively
Employers may refer to this skill as:
Well-developed written and oral communication
skills
Assisting advisors in liaising with clients
An excellent telephone manner and good
interpersonal skills
Present information and ideas in effective written
form- appropriate to the purpose/reader
Communicate orally in large or small groups
Active listening
Express ideas, feelings, opinions, decisions
clearly
Ability to network
Mathematical
Visual
Give and receive feedback
Ability to empathise
Ability to be open and honest
Ability to explain ideas
Ability to communicate in another language
The ability to think conceptually, to visualise
customer requirements for translation into
specifications and designs
Ability to liaise with community groups,
health related professionals, government
departments and agencies at all levels.
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Problem solving
Employers may refer to this skill as:
High-level conceptual, analytical and problem
solving skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver a timely service
to customers
Work under pressure
Work to tight deadlines and defined budgets
Ability to organise and prioritise workloads
Experience in collecting, organising and presenting
information using the Internet
Initiative
Attention to detail
Gather, evaluate and deploy relevant
information (data, values, issues)
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Define researchable questions
Make effective use of information
Observe and record
Formulate and test hypotheses
Evaluate evidence
Make effective decisions
Apply judgement and discrimination
Have a capacity to improvise
Ability to transfer and apply ideas and concepts
to different situations
Anticipating potential problems
Ability to think laterally
Display sensitivity to an audience when
organising and presenting ideas
Communicate appropriately with professional
colleagues and the public
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Being able to view things from all perspectives
Building on the ideas of others
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Personal transferable skills
Use this exercise to indicate which personal transferable skills you perform well and which you need to develop further.
Commitment to ethical action
Demonstrate international perspectives
Employers may refer to this skill as:
Commitment towards environmental principles
Committed focus on safety
ability to maintain confidentiality
A commitment to promote the organisation in the
community (particularly in the context of
fundraising activities)
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Working with people from diverse value systems,
cultural backgrounds and special needs
An ability to relate to people from diverse
backgrounds and cultures
Demonstrate responsibility to the community
Commitment to personal ethical actions
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Display an ability to think globally and
consider issues from a variety of perspectives
Awareness of own culture and its
perspectives
Awareness of other cultures and their
perspectives
Appreciate the importance of multicultural
diversity
Appreciate the complex and interacting
factors that contribute to notions of culture
and cultural relationships
Value diversity of language and culture
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NOTE: This activity has been sourced from Your Career & published by Graduate Careers Australia 2005
