Have you looked through a job application and your initial thoughts are that you haven’t got any required or essential skills necessary for the job? Don’t panic just yet, we have the scoop to calm your career nerves.
So many of us want a change of roles or jobs and we feel the current skills we have will not fit. On the contrary, that isn’t entirely true.
What are Transferable Skills?
Transferable skills are talents and abilities you can take from job to job or career to career. They are skills you have acquired and can implement in any future career settings.
They are categorized of more soft skills than technical skills.
How are they acquired?
Transferable skills are acquired through volunteering, internship opportunities, apprenticeship, training (formal and informal), hobbies and any job, task or role you were or still involved in including parenting.
The key thing to note is that you have every opportunity to develop your skills and talents and learn new ones at any given opportunity.
What set of skills are transferable?
Interpersonal and People skills
Simply put, it is a skill that shows how well you relate with others. Top tip is how you communicate (written and verbal), empathy for others, conflict resolution and willingness to get along with others (Team Player), to ensure a common goal.
This set of skills require the ability to use your energy, resources and time in an efficient and effective way. Top tip is how you are able to follow through, manage your time, prioritize your work, planning and of course, meeting deadlines.
The ability to influence a set of people to achieve a goal or move to a particular direction is essential as a leader. This set of soft skills are developed over time. Top tips are how you can effectively communicate, indispensability, integrity, commitment, problem solving, initiative, decision making, evaluating, delegating and managing.
This set of skills cannot be over emphasized enough. They require the ability to articulate, explain, persuade and speak at public settings (meetings, work presentation or informal settings). Top tip is how well you are understood either through an email or letter or through your speech.
Information Technology Skills
The use of I.T skills is more than essential in our everyday life. However you need to show an ability to use formal I.T skills in a work environment. Top tip is having the ability to use Microsoft Office packages.
Research and Analytical Skills
This set of transferable skills have the ability to search or look for information or data, organise them, interprete and make inferences, theories and decisions or solutions based on your findings. Top tip is the need to want to solve problems, by thinking, creativity and curiosity.
How do I know if I have them?
You already have transferable skills. You just need to list them out now and apply them.
Get out your pen and a paper and begin to make a list of skills and talents you have acquired thus far. Reflect on the roles you have done in the past (even in an educational environment) and as you go through this set of skills, create a list of your own set of transferable skills.
If you are experiencing difficulty identifying which set of skills are transferable, reach out to us through either of our social media platforms and we shall gladly guide you through.
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Je, umeangalia kupitia maombi ya kazi na mawazo yako ya awali ni kwamba huna yoyote ya mahitaji au ujuzi muhimu muhimu kwa ajili ya kazi? Usiogope bado, tuna scoop ya kutuliza neva yako ya kazi. Wengi wetu tunataka mabadiliko ya kazi na tunahisi ujuzi wetu wa sasa hautafaa. Kinyume chake, hilo si kweli kabisa. Ujuzi Unaoweza Kuhamishwa Ni Nini? Uwezo wa kuhamisha ni vipaji na uwezo unaweza kuchukua kutoka kazi hadi kazi au kazi hadi kazi. Ni ujuzi ambao umepata na unaweza kutumia katika mazingira yoyote ya kazi ya baadaye. Wao ni categorized ya ujuzi zaidi laini kuliko ujuzi wa kiufundi. Zinatokanaje? Uwezo wa uhamisho hupatikana kupitia kujitolea, fursa za mafunzo, mafunzo, mafunzo (ya rasmi na yasiyo rasmi), burudani na kazi yoyote, kazi au jukumu ambalo umehusika au bado unahusika, ikiwa ni pamoja na uzazi. Jambo kuu la kuzingatia ni kwamba una fursa zote za kuendeleza ujuzi wako na vipaji na kujifunza mpya katika nafasi yoyote iliyotolewa. Ni ujuzi gani unaoweza kuhamishwa? Uwezo wa kuwasiliana na watu: Kwa ufupi, ni ujuzi unaoonyesha jinsi unavyohusiana vizuri na wengine. "Kama ""mchezaji wa timu,"" ni jinsi unavyowasiliana (kwa maandishi na maneno), hisia-mwenzi kwa wengine, utatuzi wa migogoro na utayari wa kuelewana na wengine, ili kuhakikisha lengo la kawaida." Ujuzi huu unahitaji uwezo wa kutumia nishati yako, rasilimali na wakati kwa njia ya ufanisi na ufanisi. Kumbuka kuwa ni muhimu sana kuweza kuandaa, kuandaa, na kuandaa kwa wakati, na pia kuandaa kwa ajili ya kazi yako, na kwa hivyo, kufikia tarehe za mwisho. Uwezo wa kuathiri kikundi cha watu kufikia lengo au kusonga katika mwelekeo fulani ni muhimu kama kiongozi. Seti hii ya ujuzi laini ni maendeleo kwa muda. Vipengele vya msingi ni jinsi ya kuwasiliana kwa ufanisi, uaminifu, uaminifu, kujitolea, kutatua matatizo, mpango, maamuzi, kutathmini, kugawa na kusimamia. Ujuzi huu hauwezi kusisitizwa vya kutosha. Wanaohitaji uwezo wa kueleza, kueleza, kushawishi na kuzungumza katika mazingira ya umma (mikutano, uwasilishaji wa kazi au mazingira yasiyo ya kawaida). Kwa mfano, ni muhimu kujua jinsi unavyoeleweka kupitia barua pepe au barua. Ujuzi wa teknolojia ya habari (IT) ni muhimu sana katika maisha yetu ya kila siku. Hata hivyo, unahitaji kuonyesha uwezo wa kutumia ujuzi rasmi wa IT katika mazingira ya kazi. Kumbuka kuwa ni muhimu sana kuwa na uwezo wa kutumia Microsoft Office. Utafiti na Utafiti: Hii seti ya ujuzi wa uhamisho ina uwezo wa kutafuta au kutafuta habari au data, kuandaa, kutafsiri na kufanya inferences, nadharia na maamuzi au ufumbuzi kulingana na matokeo yako. Kumbuka kuwa unahitaji kuamua matatizo kwa kufikiri, ubunifu na udadisi. Ninajuaje ikiwa ninao? Tayari una ustadi unaoweza kuhamishwa. Unahitaji tu kuorodhesha sasa na kuzitumia. Chukua kalamu na karatasi na uanze kuandika orodha ya ujuzi na vipaji ulivyojipatia hadi sasa. Fikiria juu ya majukumu uliyofanya zamani (hata katika mazingira ya elimu) na unapoendelea kupitia seti hii ya ujuzi, fanya orodha ya seti yako mwenyewe ya ujuzi unaohamishwa. Kama wewe ni kukabiliwa na ugumu wa kutambua ambayo seti ya ujuzi ni transferable, kuwasiliana na sisi kupitia moja ya mitandao yetu ya kijamii majukwaa na sisi kwa furaha kuongoza wewe kupitia. Twitter handle  @heirwoman Facebook Page- @heirwoman