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    Transferable Skills: What Skills and Qualities Are Important To Employers?

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    This document discusses transferable skills that can be applied to different jobs and career paths. It emphasizes that through coursework, activities, internships and life experiences, people develop many skills that are not specific to any single discipline. These transferable skills are valuable to employers. The top 10 transferable skills sought by employers according to a survey are then listed, including skills like leadership, teamwork, communication and problem solving. The document encourages the reader to reflect on what transferable skills they have developed and how to articulate them to employers. It provides categories of transferable skills and prompts the reader to identify their top 10 skills and examples of demonstrating each.

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    This document discusses transferable skills that can be applied to different jobs and career paths. It emphasizes that through coursework, activities, internships and life experiences, people develop many skills that are not specific to any single discipline. These transferable skills are valuable to employers. The top 10 transferable skills sought by employers according to a survey are then listed, including skills like leadership, teamwork, communication and problem solving. The document encourages the reader to reflect on what transferable skills they have developed and how to articulate them to employers. It provides categories of transferable skills and prompts the reader to identify their top 10 skills and examples of demonstrating each.

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    This document discusses transferable skills that can be applied to different jobs and career paths. It emphasizes that through coursework, activities, internships and life experiences, people develop many skills that are not specific to any single discipline. These transferable skills are valuable to employers. The top 10 transferable skills sought by employers according to a survey are then listed, including skills like leadership, teamwork, communication and problem solving. The document encourages the reader to reflect on what transferable skills they have developed and how to articulate them to employers. It provides categories of transferable skills and prompts the reader to identify their top 10 skills and examples of demonstrating each.

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    Transferable Skills: What Skills and Qualities Are Important To Employers?

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    This document discusses transferable skills that can be applied to different jobs and career paths. It emphasizes that through coursework, activities, internships and life experiences, people develop many skills that are not specific to any single discipline. These transferable skills are valuable to employers. The top 10 transferable skills sought by employers according to a survey are then listed, including skills like leadership, teamwork, communication and problem solving. The document encourages the reader to reflect on what transferable skills they have developed and how to articulate them to employers. It provides categories of transferable skills and prompts the reader to identify their top 10 skills and examples of demonstrating each.

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    TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

    As you begin your job search or consider careers that would be right for you,
    it is important to know what you are good at and what you enjoy doing. Over
    the years, you have developed many skills from coursework, extracurricular
    activities, internships, jobs and your total life experiences. If you've
    researched, written, edited and presented papers for classes, you've used
    skills that are not limited to any one academic discipline or knowledge area
    but are transferable to many occupations. A prospective employer expects
    you to apply the skills you have learned through your studies, work, and life
    experiences to the work environment.

    What Skills and Qualities are Important to Employers?


    According to the 2016 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook Survey, the top 10
    qualities/skills employers seek are transferable skills:
    1. Leadership
    2. Ability to work in a team
    3. Written communication skills
    4. Problem-solving skills
    5. Verbal communication skills
    6. Strong work ethic
    7. Initiative
    8. Analytical/quantitative skills
    9. Flexibility/adaptability
    10. Technical skills
    Which of the top ten skills do you excel in? Where have you developed these skills? How might you articulate
    these skills to employers? How can you develop them further?

    Take Stock of Your Transferable Skills


    Review the lists in the following 5 categories and underline all the skills you have. Then go back and circle the
    10 underlined skills you would enjoy using most. Write these top 10 skills in the spaces provided under “Ten
    Most Preferred Skills” and write a brief example of how you have demonstrated each skill in a job, class,
    internship, or extracurricular activity. This will help as you consider career options and as you prepare for your
    job or internship search and interviews.

    Human Relations Design & Planning


    Attend to the social, physical or mental needs of people Imagine the future, develop a process for creating it
    being sensitive anticipating problems
    counseling creating images
    advocating designing programs
    coaching displaying
    providing care creating images
    conveying feelings brainstorming new ideas
    empathizing improvising
    interpersonal skills composing
    facilitating group process thinking visually
    active listening anticipating consequences of action
    motivating conceptualizing
    Communication Organization, Management Research & Planning
    Exchange, transmission and Direct and guide a group in The search for specific knowledge
    expression of knowledge and ideas completing tasks and attaining goals setting goals
    speaking effectively initiating new ideas analyzing ideas
    writing concisely making decisions analyzing data
    listening attentively leading defining needs
    expressing ideas solving problems investigating
    facilitating discussion meeting deadlines reading for information
    providing appropriate feedback supervising gathering information
    negotiating motivating formulating hypotheses
    perceiving nonverbal messages coordinating tasks calculating and comparing
    persuading assuming responsibility developing theory
    describing feelings setting priorities observing
    interviewing teaching identifying resources
    editing interpreting policy outlining
    summarizing mediating creating ideas
    promoting recruiting identifying resources
    working in a team resolving conflict critical thinking
    making presentations organizing predicting and forecasting
    thinking on one’s feet determining policy solving problems
    dealing with public giving directions

    Your Ten Most Preferred Skills Brief Example of How You’ve Used Each Skill

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