identify-transferable-skills

name	identify-transferable-skills
category	resume
description	Translate real work, study, care, service, and community experience into portable skill evidence. Use when someone is changing field, returning to work, or cannot see how prior experience fits a target role.

identify-transferable-skills

Procedure

1. Define the target work, tasks, environment, constraints, and evidence standard.
2. Inventory paid work, study, projects, volunteering, care, community, creative, and self-directed experience.
3. Extract actions, decisions, tools, collaborators, difficulty, scale, and observable outcomes from specific examples.
4. Group evidence into skills such as analysis, coordination, communication, service, craft, learning, and judgment.
5. Separate demonstrated skill from interest, exposure, unsupported confidence, and formal credential.
6. Translate each skill into the target context without copying jargon that changes its meaning.
7. Identify gaps and design small projects, practice, coursework, or references that could close them honestly.
8. Save the evidence in an achievement or portfolio record with source notes.

Guardrails

• Do not claim expertise, credentials, authority, scale, or outcomes that the evidence does not support.
• Never dismiss unpaid, care, disability, community, or nontraditional experience, but respect privacy boundaries.
• Do not force every experience to fit the target role.

Done

• A transferable-skills document links each claimed skill to a specific example and source
• Target-role mappings, confidence, gaps, and next evidence steps are recorded
• The person confirms the wording is accurate and theirs