Transferable Skills Checklist

Creative, Artistic Skills
o Artistic
o Dance, body movement
o Draw, sketch, render / o Expressive
o Music Appreciation
o Perform, act / o Play Instruments
o Present artistic ideas
Dealing with Data
o Analyze data or facts
o Audit records
o Budget
o Calculate, compute
o Classify data
o Compare, inspect, record facts / o Compile
o Count, observe, compile
o Detail-oriented
o Evaluate
o Investigate
o Keep financial records
o Locate answers/information / o Manage money
o Negotiate
o Observe
o Research
o Synthesize
o Take inventory
Key Transferable Skills:
o Accept responsibility
o Control budgets
o Increase sales or efficiency
o Instruct others
o Manage money or budgets / o Manage people
o Meet deadlines
o Meet the public
o Negotiate
o Organize/manage projects / o Plan
o Solve problems
o Speak in public
o Supervise others
o Written communications
Leadership
o Arrange social functions
o Competitive
o Decisive
o Delegate
o Direct others
o Explain things to others / o Get results
o Mediate problems
o Motivate people
o Negotiate agreements
o Plan
o Run meetings / o Self-controlled
o Self-motivated
o Solve problems
o Take risks
Other Transferable Skills:
o Assemble or make things
o Build, observe, inspect things
o Construct or repair buildings / o Drive or operate vehicles
o Good with my hands
o Operate tools/machinery / o Repair things
o Use complex equipment
o Use my hands
Using Words, Ideas:
o Articulate
o Communicate verbally
o Correspond with others
o Create new ideas / o Design
o Edit
o Inventive
o Logical / o Remember information
o Research
o Speak in public
o Write clearly
Working with People:
o Administer
o Care for
o Confront others
o Counsel people
o Demonstrate
o Diplomatic
o Help others / o Kind
o Listen
o Negotiate
o Outgoing
o Patient
o Persuade
o Pleasant / o Sensitive
o Sociable
o Supervise
o Tolerant
o Tough
o Trust
o Understand

Job Content Skills – what have you done?

o Adapting new procedure
o Administering programs
o Advising people
o Analyzing data
o Analyzing problems
o Assembling apparatus
o Becoming actively involved
o Being thorough
o Budgeting expenses
o Calculating numerical data
o Checking for accuracy
o Coaching individuals
o Collecting money
o Comparing results
o Compiling statistics
o Conducting meetings
o Coordinating schedules/times
o Coping with deadlines
o Delegating responsibility
o Determining/defining problems
o Developing plans for projects
o Dispensing information
o Drafting reports
o Editing work
o Encouraging others
o Evaluating programs / o Expressing ideas orally to individuals or groups
o Finding/gathering information
o Handling complaints
o Handling detail work
o Imagining new solutions
o Inspecting physical objects
o Interacting with people at various levels
o Interviewing prospective employees
o Investigating problems
o Knowledge of concepts and principles
o Listening to others
o Locating missing information
o Maintaining accurate records
o Maintaining emotional control under stress
o Making decisions
o Managing an organization
o Managing people
o Mediating between people
o Meeting new people
o Motivating others
o Negotiating, arbitrating conflicts
o Operating equipment
o Organizing files / o Organizing tasks
o Performing numeric analysis
o Persuading others
o Picking out important information
o Planning agendas/meetings
o Planning organizational needs
o Preparing written communications
o Prioritizing work
o Promoting events
o Proposing ideas
o Providing customer service
o Public speaking
o Reading volumes of materials
o Recommending course of action
o Recommending ideas
o Rehabilitating people
o Relating to the public
o Running meetings
o Screening telephone calls
o Selling ideas/products
o Setting up demonstrations
o Setting work/committee goals
o Teaching/Training Individuals
o Thinking in a logical manner
o Taking independent action