What are Transferable Skills?
Definition: Skills you have acquired during any activity in your life -- jobs, classes, projects,
parenting, hobbies, sports, virtually anything -- that are transferable and applicable in many
different jobs or occupation settings.
Examples of Transferable Skills:
Communicating
Designing
Planning
Speaking
Innovating
Selling
Problem-solving
Learning
Updating
Imagining
Leading
Achieving
Interpreting
Reasoning
Advising
Proofreading
Sharing
Troubleshooting
Researching
Analyzing
Persuading
Organizing
Prioritizing
Encouraging
Developing
Synthesizing
Visualizing
Supervising
Reporting
Searching
Debating
Influencing
Filing
Examining
Testing
Writing
Self-understanding
Understanding
Motivating
Logical Thinking
Teaching
Improving
Creating
Talking
Estimating
Negotiating
Team-building
Decision-making
Performing
Comparing
Reading
FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE WORLD
Complete the chart below by identifying the transferable skills you’ve learned in school and
applying them to the outside world.
SUBJECT
Math
Science
English
History
Languages
Music
Art
Drama
Civics
Business
Computers
TRANSFERABLE SKILLS LEARNED
APPLICATION – To be used in other
aspects of your life and future career
REFLECTIONS
1. What are your three strongest skills?
2. How can these skills be used in your ideal job? Why are these skills important?
Skill
Ideal Job
How this skill can be
used in my ideal job
Why this skill is important
3. What 3 skills do you need to work on the most? How can they be improved?
Skills to work on
How it can be improved