Course Description
Skills you’ve developed over your career can help you advance your way into a new industry. What skills do you have that can transfer over to your next new job? In these lessons on Developing Transferrable Skills, you’ll learn how to harness your abilities, develop new competencies, and cultivate a heightened sense of commercial awareness to propel your career to new heights.
In this course, you’ll learn how to enhance your employability so you can thrive in a dynamic professional landscape. We’ll help you discover the wealth of skills you already possess through exploring your education, job experiences, hobbies, and volunteer efforts. We’ll also cover how self-reflection and targeted questions can help you recognize and articulate your transferable skills. We’ll discuss essential transferable skills such as communication, problem-solving, leadership, adaptability and technology proficiency. We’ll also explore some practical strategies for enhancing these skills to gain and maintain your competitive edge.
What You'll Learn
- Identify the transferable skills you already possess by exploring your education, job experiences, hobbies, and volunteer efforts
- Use self-reflection and targeted questions to recognize and articulate your transferable skills
- Build on and refine your existing transferable skills, then develop new competencies
- Recognize essential transferable skills such as communication, problem-solving, leadership, adaptability, and technology proficiency
- Explain what commercial awareness is and apply strategies to improve it
- Enhance your employability to thrive in a dynamic professional landscape
Key Takeaways
- Skills developed over your career can transfer over to help you advance into a new industry or job.
- You can discover skills you already possess by exploring your education, job experiences, hobbies, and volunteer efforts.
- Self-reflection and targeted questions help you recognize and articulate your transferable skills.
- Essential transferable skills include communication, problem-solving, leadership, adaptability, and technology proficiency.
- Cultivating commercial awareness and using practical strategies to enhance your skills helps you gain and maintain a competitive edge.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is for professionals who want to enhance their employability and use the skills developed over their career to advance into a new industry or job.
What will this course cover?
It covers how to identify your current transferable skills, refine and develop new ones, and understand and improve commercial awareness, including essential skills such as communication, problem-solving, leadership, adaptability, and technology proficiency.
How will this course help me recognize my transferable skills?
It helps you discover the skills you already possess by exploring your education, job experiences, hobbies, and volunteer efforts, and shows how self-reflection and targeted questions can help you recognize and articulate them.
What lessons are included?
The course includes Introduction, Identifying Your Current Transferable Skills, Building on Existing Transferable Skills, Developing New Transferable Skills, Improving Commercial Awareness, and a Test Your Knowledge assessment.
What is commercial awareness in this course?
The course explains what commercial awareness is and covers practical strategies for improving it to help you gain and maintain your competitive edge.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.5
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