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4-C: My Transferable Skills

Instructions:
Look at the job application you filled out in Exercise 3 and think about other things you do that
show you have marketable skills. Think about the type of activities you’ve done and in what type of
job you might use that skill. If you’ve watched younger siblings, you’ve been a childcare provider.
Your leadership on the volleyball team might use be used by an athletic trainer or a manager. Think
about the amount of time you spend in your activities. Three months of experience equals 480
hours of participation. You may have done more than you think!

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1. List any skills you have gained from:
• volunteering in community service (list the job title that would correspond to the type
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of work you have done (Answering questions at an information booth could equate to a
customer service rep position. Designing the invitation to an event would be a graphic
designer)
• membership in professional organizations (list any offices you have held)
• hobbies an interests (curating a stamp collection, being a musician on the piano,

blogging, creating videos, or being a gardener)
• extra-curricular activities (athlete on a team, public speaker on the debate team, being
an entrepreneur in the business club)
2. Estimate the number of hours you have spent in your activities.
3. List how you will prove you have each skill in The Proof column.

List your transferable skills on the following pages 

46 No. 4 – Taking Inventory – Dialing Down On My Skills