Transferable Skills are skills gained which are not subject-specific but employers are always looking out for:
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- Commercial awareness skills – An understanding and appreciation of how business operates and the broader contexts – customers, competitors and suppliers, including how to treat yourself as a business if you are becoming self-employed.
- Communication skills – including literacy and interpersonal skills, effective and active listening, reflecting, questioning and presenting (oral , written & non-verbal), and for us musicians MUSICALLY – being able to communicate to an audience.
- Intellectual & subject knowledge skills – with the skills to apply discipline specific knowledge in a range of contexts and the intellectual curiosity to question accepted wisdom and be open to ideas.
- Language skills – learning and practicing a foreign language; ALWAYS useful.
- Problem solving and analytical skills – including the ability to make decisions and apply appropriate solutions.
- Project management skills – applying appropriate project management tools and techniques, able to set goals and plans, managing resources to deliver results and measuring success with strong time management and organisational skills.
- Self-management and personal effectiveness skills – including time management, being a self-starter, self-motivated, having a readiness to accept responsibility, and independent working skills.
- Social responsibility and global citizenship skills – Recognise issues affecting the economy, environment, human rights and how individuals operate as part of a community, on a local or global scale. Skills which develop ethical behaviour, sustainability, citizenship and encourage personal contribution.
- Teamworking skills – ability to work with others effectively, working towards achieving a common goal, recognising and drawing on the strengths of individuals for the best possible outcome.