Find transferable skills for the new sector, and boldly incorporate them into the way you lead your search.
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Upper secondary curricula should provide a balance between vocational and technical skills, including IT, and transferable skills such as confidence and communication which are indispensable for the work place.
Upper secondary curricula should provide a balance between vocational and technical skills, including IT, and transferable skills such as confidence and communication which translate easily to the work place.
"I think there are always transferable skills like being able to negotiate and work with people who are not like yourself, " said Monica Wilson, associate director of Undergraduate Career Services at Dartmouth College.
Knowing that new opportunities might not look the way she had initially imagined, allowed her to move adeptly from engineer to private sector manager to the UN, making use of transferable skills as well as transferable passions.
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Our guide to this world is Nick Farmer, a seasoned bond trader who like so many others has sacrificed his youth and his dreams for the million dollar bonuses and the over-specialized non-transferable skills of Wall Street.
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Once you've figured out which transferable skills to invest in, make a concrete action plan you can stick to, whether by signing up for a course or conference, or simply by pledging to spend one hour each week teaching yourself something.
While COBOL has not gone away at the banks, more and more of the technical staff spend their time programming new features and interfaces in modern languages and web application frameworks that provide highly applicable and transferable skills to startups only too happy to hire them for their technical training and domain experience.
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It describes this as a "revolutionary paperless qualification designed to equip students with practical and transferable IT skills".
Firstly, graduates of highly specialized technical programs may find themselves locked into those occupations because of a lack of transferable soft skills.
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Fast-changing fields such as media, health care and technology increasingly tap industry outsiders for a fresh perspective and transferable leadership skills, executive coaches say.
The companies trying to build businesses around the Linux operating system are also stepping up efforts, called United Linux, to create standard editions of the software and to ensure skills are transferable across its different varieties.
It portrays the work of American Artist Jane Golden, who has set up an arts programme in Philadelphia that is intended to direct the creativity of young delinquents in favour of their community by using an intensive curriculum that involves mural-making to engage youth and to teach transferable life and job skills.
Management and marketing skills are not transferable, the thinking goes, since the federal customer is a political animal that seldom behaves like an economic rational actor.
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What skills, experiences, and competencies have you developed as a parent that are effectively transferable into your executive role?
Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
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