Transferable skills can be transferred from one job, or even one career, to another.

Critical Transferable Skills:

Accept responsibility

Budgeting

Efficiency

Meet deadlines

Project planning

Public speaking

Sales                                                              

Supervise others

"Thing" Skills:

Assembling

Balancing, juggling

Drawing, painting

Driving

Endurance

Finishing/refinishing

Gathering                                                       

Grinding

Hammering                                                    

Hand crafts

Keyboarding, typing                                      

Keypunching, drilling

Manual dexterity                                              

Modeling, remodeling

Observing/inspecting                                   

Operating machines

Physical agility, strength                                  

Precise tolerance, standards

Restoring                                                       

Sandblasting

Sense of touch                                       

Separating

Sewing                                                           

Sorting

Weaving

"People" Skills:

Caring

Comforting

Communicating

Conflict management

Conflict resolution                                           

Counseling

Consulting                                                      

Developing rapport

Diplomacy                                                      

Diversity

Empathy                                                         

Encouraging

Group facilitating                                           

Helping others

Inspiring trust                                     

Inquiry

Instructing                                                       

Interviewing

Listening                                                        

Mediating

Mentoring                                                       

Motivating

Negotiating                                                    

Outgoing

Problem solving                                                

Respect

Responsive                                                    

Sensitive

Sympathy                                                       

Tolerance

Dealing with data:

Analyzing 

Auditing                                              

Budgeting

Calculating/computing                    

Checking for accuracy                     

Classifying

Comparing                                         

Compiling                                          

Cost analysis

Counting                                             

Detail-oriented                                  

Evaluating

Examining                                          

Financial or fiscal analysis                      

Financial mgmt.

Financial records                                   

Following instructions                 

Investigating

Organizing                                         

Problem solving                                

Recording facts

Research                                           

Surveying                                           

Synthesizing

Taking inventory

Using words, ideas:

Advertising                                         

Articulate                                           

Brainstorming

Correspondence                              

Design                                              

Edit

Imaginative                                        

Inventive                                            

Logical

Promotional writing                         

Public speaking                                

Publicity

Quick thinking                                   

Sign Language                               

Speech writing

Telephone skills                            

Write clearly, concisely                    

Communication

Leadership:

Competitive                                       

Coordinating                                      

Decision-making

Decisive                                             

Delegate                                           

Direct others

Evaluation                                          

Goal setting                                     

Influence others

Initiate new tasks                           

Integrity                                              

Judgment

Manage, direct others               

Mediate problems                             

Motivate people

Multi-tasking                                      

Negotiate agreements               

Organization

Planning                                             

Results-oriented                               

Risk taker

Run meetings                                    

Self-confident                                

Self-directed

Self-motivated                               

Sets pace, example                                 

Solve problems

Strategic planning                                  

Supervision                                      

Work schedules

Creative, Artistic:

Artistic                                                

Dance, body movement                  

Designing

Drawing, painting                                  

Expressive                                       

Handicrafts

Illustrating, sketching                    

Mechanical drawing                         

Model-making

Perform                                              

Photography                                                

Musical

Poetic images                                   

Present artistic ideas              

Singing

Visualize shapes                                   

Visualizing