Transferable Skills

Skills from one career or field that apply directly to another.

Transferable skills are abilities you've developed in one context (a job, a volunteer role, a degree program) that apply in a different context. They're especially important for career changers, recent graduates, and anyone returning to the workforce after a break.

Common transferable skills include: project management, analytical thinking, written and verbal communication, budgeting, people management, teaching, data analysis, and customer relationship building. When you're making a career transition, frame your past experience in terms of these transferable skills rather than the specific tools or titles of your old field.