Recent Blogs About "transferable skills"

One of my pet peeves is when a client or student of mine talks about getting their degree from a particular university or college. This nomenclature is everywhere from professional bios to all forms of media. The last time I checked, schools were not giving out degrees to just anyone who walked across the stage at graduation. Degrees are earned with hard work, diligence, and years of effort.

I encourage you to re-arrange your mental furniture when it comes to earning verses getting in the professional world as well. You are in control of how people perceive you in the workplace or job se…

With staggering unemployment rates and job insecurity, many people have changed careers by necessity and others, by choice. You must learn to navigate the new normal of this job world and take ownership of your personal career destiny. Now more than ever employers want to see that you can bounce back and recover quickly from adversity.

Resilience is a key competency that employers value because it transfers well into the workplace. One constant in every career field is change. If you can show an employer that you can deal with change you can be seen as a valuable commodity to that organiz…

Every day I speak with clients who have no real sense of what their skills are. Simply put, a skill is an ability, based on training or experience, to do something well. We all have skills and the trick is to discover what they are and market them with humble confidence to make ourselves attractive to employers who want to utilize these skills in the workplace.

As trained opera singer turned Career & Professional Development Coach, I like to think of myself as the Queen of Transferable Skills. When I was making my unique career transition most employers were very dubious about what I had …