Transferrable skills

General Transferrable Skills:

  • Communicate: Speak and/or write well and get your ideas across to other easily.
  • Interpret: Look at things and make sense of them, figure out what makes things work,why there is a problem, etc.
  • Analyze: Break a problem down to see what is really going on.
  • Creativity: Use your imagination to come up with new ideas or to solve problems.
  • Order Goods/Supplies: Keep track of items and how to order them.
  • Decision Making: Make good judgements about what to do in a difficult situation, even when the supervisor is not present.
  • Adapt to Situations: Learn a new task and/or work in a different area with different co- workers.
  • Explain: Tell others why you do certain things they way you do or why you think the way you do.
  • Think Ahead: Plan your day and keep problems/accidents from happening.
  • Calculate Numbers: Use a calculator, cash register or computer to answer numerical questions.
  • Operate Equipment: Turn equipment on and off as well as how to use it safely and wisely. (If you don't know how to operate certain things, you always ask for help.)
  • Record Data: Write thorough and accurate notes/numbers.
  • Set Goals: Set goals for yourself to achieve and plan ways to achieve them.
  • Learn Quickly: Do new things and carry out new responsibilities easily by watching other or by following instructions.
  • Confident: Believe in and feel good about yourself.
  • Pleasant: Nice person for others to talk to and be with.
  • Energetic: Lots of energy to use at work and at play.
  • Helpful: Enjoy helping people solve their problems.
  • Trustworthy: Can be trusted to get the job done, to look after things or keep secrets that are very important to other people.
  • Efficient: Perform tasks in the fastest and simplest ways that they can be done.
  • Organize: Arrange people/plan events/put things in order so that they run smoothly.
  • Delegate: Assign tasks to others to complete.
  • Assemble Products: Put things together with your hands.
  • Take Instructions: Follow instructions well, ask questions when you do not fully understand instructions.
  • Motivate Others: Help keep others' spirits up and encourage them to do their best.
  • Service Customers: Be friendly, patient and polite with customers and try your best to service their needs/wants.
  • Dependable: Can be counted on to do what you said you would do (i.e. show up for work on time, do your job duties well, etc).
  • Flexible: Can carry out many different responsibilities, sometimes with very little advanced notice.
  • Self-assured: Feel very confident and positive about yourself and your abilities.
  • Supervise: Watch others to make sure that everything is ok and/or that they are doing their jobs well.
  • Time Management: Plan your time so that you don't forget to do things, you're almost always/always on time, and you know how to prioritize and give yourself enough time to do the things that you need to do.M
  • Trouble-shoot: Figure out what the problem is, why there is a problem, or prevent a problem before it happens.
  • Handle Complaints: Deal effectively with complaints made by customers or constructive criticism from your employer.
  • Listen: Listen/pay attention to what others are saying, without daydreaming or forming judgement about them.
  • Considerate: Always think about how others may feel about things, especially before you say or do things that my affect them.
  • Punctual: Always on time for things.
  • Loyal: Committed and devoted to things/people that mean a lot to you (i.e. your best friend, your job/supervisor).
  • Precise: Make sure that things are done accurately, correctly and exactly.
  • Resourceful: Thing of new, creative and different ways to do things when there are no obvious solutions available.

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Science Skills and Abilities:

  • Acquisitive: skills and abilities of gathering information
    1. Listening—being attentive, alert, questioning
    2. Observing—being accurate, alert, systematic
    3. Searching—locating sources, using several sources, being self-reliant, acquiring library skills and the ability to use computer search programs
    4. Inquiring—asking, interviewing, corresponding
    5. Investigating—formulating questions
    6. Gathering data—tabulating, organizing, classifying, recording
    7. Researching—locating a problem, learning background, setting up investigations, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
  • Organizational: skills and abilities of putting information in systematic order
    1. Recording—tabulating, charting, working systematically, recording completely
    2. Comparing—noticing how things are alike, looking for similarities, noticing identical features
    3. Contrasting—noticing how things differ, looking for dissimilarities, noticing unlike features
    4. Classifying—identifying groups and categories, deciding between alternatives
    5. Organizing—putting items in order, establishing a system, filing, labeling, arranging
    6. Outlining—employing major headings and subheadings, using sequential, logical organization
    7. Reviewing—identifying important items
    8. Evaluating—recognizing good and poor features, knowing how to improve grades
    9. Analyzing—seeing implications and relationships, picking out causes and effects, locating new problems
  • Creative: skills and abilities of developing new approaches and new ways of thinking
    1. Planning ahead—seeing possible results and probable modes of attack, setting up hypotheses
    2. Designing—identifying new problems
    3. Inventing—creating a method, device, or technique
    4. Synthesizing—putting familiar things together in a new arrangement, hybridizing, drawing together
  • Manipulative: skills and abilities of handling materials and instruments
    1. Using an instrument—knowing the instrument’s parts, how it works, how to adjust it, its proper use for a given task, its limitations
    2. Caring for an instrument—knowing how to store it, using proper settings, keeping it clean, handling it properly, knowing its rate capacity, transporting it safely
    3. Demonstrating—setting up apparatus, describing parts and functions, illustrating scientific principles
    4. Experimenting—recognizing a question, planning a procedure, collecting data, recording data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions
    5. Constructing—making simple equipment for demonstrations and investigations
    6. Calibrating—learning the basic information about calibration, calibrating a thermometer, balance, timer, or other instrument
  • Communicative: skills and abilities of transferring information correctly from one experimenter to another
    1. Asking questions—learning to formulate good questions, to be selective in asking
    2. Discussing—learning to contribute ideas, listening to ideas of others, keeping on the topic, arriving at conclusions
    3. Explaning—describing to someone else clearly, clarifying major points, exhibiting patience, being willing to repeat
    4. Reporting—orally reporting to a class or teacher in capsule form the significant material on a science topic
    5. Writing—writing a report of an experiment or demonstration; describing the problem, method of attack, data collected, methods of analysis, conclusions drawn, and implications for further work
    6. Criticizing—constructively criticizing or evaluating a piece of work, a scientific procedure, or conclusion
    7. Graphing—putting in graphical form the results of a study or experiment, being able to interpret the graph for someone else

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