How should transferable skills be described in making a career change?
When describing a transferable skill, your description of your skills should be based on how close the new setting matches the past setting. For example, “writing lesson plans for a secondary Biology class” is fine for a similar position in Education, but when transferring this skill to a business setting it would usually be better to say “writing presentations for classroom training.” We kept the “writing” but described the rest of the skill with terms familiar to those in the new setting. Moreover, if the new business setting is technology-related, we might be more specific by saying “writing presentations for classroom training on technical [or scientific] subjects.” To take this one step further, if the new business setting was related to the biological sciences, we might want to be more specific: “writing presentations for classroom training on biological subjects.
When describing a transferable skill, your description of your skills should be based on how close the new setting matches the past setting. For example, “writing lesson plans for a secondary Biology class” is fine for a similar position in Education, but when transferring this skill to a business setting it would usually be better to say “writing presentations for classroom training.” We kept the “writing” but described the rest of the skill with terms familiar to those in the new setting.
