From the course: Switching Your Career
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Identify your transferable skills
From the course: Switching Your Career
Identify your transferable skills
- As a switcher, sometimes what you believe to be your most impressive accomplishments aren't the most relevant to your potential employer's needs. In fact, your most relevant skills for your switch may be ones you earned several years earlier or even through volunteer projects or side hustles. While some skills are industry or function specific, like internal computer programs, the majority are transferable. Examples of highly-coveted transferable skills include critical thinking, customer service, collaboration, influencing, communication, and political savvy. When making a switch, it's critical to convince the hiring manager you have the skills to solve their toughest pain points. So once you understand the market, AKA your audience, the next step is to identify which aspects of your expertise are most relevant to their world. The good news, you get to create your own branded career story, which can include or exclude anything from your background that you choose. You need to be…
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