Skill Pathway: Career Planning & Job Hunting
Career Readiness Competencies: Career Management
Workshop Description
This workshop focuses on how to articulate and deploy transferable skills in different professional contexts. Participants will (1) develop the capacity to identify how transferable skills acquired in academic programs may carry over to non-academic professions and (2) enhance their ability to persuade employers that their skills are relevant to a particular profession. To demystify the process of skill identification, participants are introduced to two main techniques: skill translation and skill mining. Skill translation involves articulating transferable skills using the language of a targeted field, while skill mining is a process by which one may document and analyze past experiences—both academic and non-academic—and extract the skills developed.
Learning Outcomes
(1) Explain the premise and main sections of an Individual Development Plan, and particularly the section on skill identification
(2) List the benefits of articulating transferable skills
(3) Describe techniques used to identify skills and articulate them (translation, mining)