Career planningGain self insight

Assessing your transferable skills

15 minutes

Knowing both your current and transferable skills can be extremely valuable when it comes to gaining career insight and planning your career path. Transferable skills are abilities and qualities that you can take with you from one job or industry to another, regardless of the specific technical knowledge or expertise required for those roles.

Recognising your skills can also help you identify and plan areas where you may need to acquire new skills or knowledge. In addition, you can gain insight into the skills that you enjoy vs those skills that burn you out or that you simply don’t enjoy.

The best way to clearly identify your skills is to analyse the tasks you do and the responsibilities you have with our three-step downloadable activity.

List your responsibilities

List your responsibilities and tasks in the downloadable activity below. Think broadly, considering the work you currently do, previous roles and the things you manage in your personal life.

Define your skills from your responsibilities

Reflect on your list and identify the skills you are using when undertaking these tasks and responsibilities. Then write them in the table.

Evaluate your proficiency, enjoyment, and burnout risks

Finally, review your list of skills. The table provided has three columns for you to consider whether you are good at the skills, enjoy the skill and / or if its a burnout skill.

Tick the coloums 1. Good at, 2. Enjoys, 3. Burnout skill, that applies to you.

This dual-perspective approach helps in gaining a clearer understanding of your personal and professional growth areas.

Download the fillable activity

Tip: At your next coaching session, your coach may review some of your answers, however the main focus will be to discuss the insights you have taken out of completing the excercise.

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