How to find a new job - Transferable Job Skills -Hi, my name is Rebecca. And in today's lesson, we're going to talk about an important technique you can use to help you get a job. This is the concept of transferable job skills. Once again, I said, transferable job skills. Now what are transferable job skills? Well, transferable job skills are any skills that you've acquired, or that you have got, in your personal life or your professional life which you can transfer to your next job. Now why is this important? This is especially important to be able to identify what these skills are. They are important if you are a new graduate and you're just looking for a job and you need to transfer some skills from your personal life onto your resume to show potential employers what you can do. They are important if you have lost a job and you're looking for a new job. They are also important if you are changing careers. And also, if you're trying to re-enter the workforce in any way after a break. And again, by being able to identify these skills, you will be able to show your next employer or a potential employer what skills you had experienced in the past, what skills you picked up in the past, and how you can use them in the future in your next job. So let's look at what some of these skills are. It's really important to be able to do this because this is the way you can show somebody what you're capable of doing in the future. Because no job is exactly like any other job. But there are skills which are similar in one job and in other jobs. And these are what we are trying to identify. Let's look at what some of these skills are. So one skill that employers often look for are called-- one type of skill, it's called analytical skills. Analytical is an adjective, which comes from the verb to analyze. So what can you analyze? You can analyze a problem. You can analyze the situation. You can find the problem. You can identify the cause of something. If you are good at that type of thing, then you have analytical skills. You can analyze various types of situations and data. You might have communication skills. Communication, we refer to as any kind of information that's shared in writing or in speech. So some people as you know, are very good at communication. You may have leadership skills. You may be very good at motivating people to achieve certain goals and leading them towards the achievement of those goals. Those are called leadership skills. You may also have good negotiation skills. You may be able to get a good deal, to bargain with other people, to convince people of your point of view. You could have very strong interpersonal skills. Interpersonal skills are the ability to work with other people with sensitivity, with thoughtfulness. You may have organizational skills. You may be very good at meeting deadlines, setting up schedules, making a plan, things like that. Or another one, is team working skills. This is the ability to work successfully in a team. To work together effectively with a group of people. Of course, there are many other transferable skills but these are some of the main ones. So what we're going to do now is I'm going to read out something, a particular activity, and you're going to try to think what type of skill that represents. For example, if you are good at convincing someone, if you are good at convincing someone, what type of skill is that? Have a look. So that is called, negotiation. Negotiation or even communication. Some of these are overlapping skills. If you are good at deciding on priorities, if you're good at deciding what to do in what order, what type of skill does that represent? Have a look. That's an organizational skill that you have. If you're good at explaining ideas, what kind of skill does that represent? Explaining ideas, probably mean that you are a good communicator. You have communication skills. If you're good at working with different people, what kind of skills are those? Those are probably interpersonal skills or team working skills. If you're good at delegating tasks-- now what does it mean to delegate? I'll write the work for you. To delegate a task means, in effect, that you don't do everything yourself. To delegate means to assign or give to someone else to do. We all know managers who try to do everything themselves, of course, they can't. And so they are always very, very busy and the people under them, don't sometimes, have enough work to do. So it's important for a manager to be able to delegate, to give responsibilities and assignments to other people who are under him or her. This is the ability to delegate, what is that? To delegate tasks is what kind of skill? It's a leadership skill, good. Suppose you listen deeply to other people when they speak. You have the ability to listen deeply to others, what kind of skill is that? That would be an interpersonal skill. It's also, the flip side of communication skills because communicating with someone also means being able to listen to them very well. Suppose you know really well how to work towards a shared goal, what kind of skill does that represent? Working together toward a shared goal is a team working skill. It's a teamworking skill. So here are some. As I said, there are many other skills which are transferable. It's really important to examine your own life history and to figure out which are your key qualities. What skills and abilities do you have to offer to a potential employer? If you'd like to practice this a little bit more or perhaps do a little quiz on this, please go to our website at www.engVid.com. You'll find a little quiz on that as well as many other useful tips in English. Thanks very much for watching. All the best with your English and your job. Bye for now.