Work Skills... Adaptive vs. Transferable

Adaptive vs. Transferable

WORK SKILLS

If you are searching for a job or seeking to find a better opportunity or even preparing yourself for a new promotion, you need to know how the employers evaluate the candidates. Every job position required two kinds of skills. The first kind is called "Adaptive" skills: the skills that help us cope, shape our attitudes and determine how we manage ourselves and interact with others, while the second is called "Transferable" skills: skills that are learned as we experience different situations both within and outside the workplace. These skills can easily be transferred from one situation to another.

This is why, for example, a company president is often hired from outside the industry. The fact that she is from another field is secondary since she brings the necessary executive skills to run the company.

Let's have a deeper look inside each of them.

ADAPTIVE SKILLS

Make a list of some of the adjectives that describe your adaptive skills. Your list may include characteristics such as: accepting, adventurous, ambitious, caring, cheerful, committed, confident, dedicated, efficient, energetic, fair-minded, happy, independent, insightful, likeable, objective, orderly, organized, outgoing, patient, precise, productive, receptive, responsive, self-confident, sincere, talented, tolerant, truthful, and unique.

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

Next, make a list of some of the adjectives that describe your transferable skills. Your list may include people skills, like assisting, coaching, helping, serving. Information skills like analyzing, calculating, evaluating, organizing and scheduling. Communication skills like advising, interpreting, presenting, talking and writing.

Creative skills such as arranging, creating, designing, developing, generating, inventing and producing. Leadership skills like administering, coordinating, directing, facilitating, leading, managing, motivating, planning and supervising. Manual and mechanical skills like constructing, installing, operating, repairing and servicing.

When considering what job-related skills you possess, be sure to consider all of the skills that might relate to a job, even though you may have acquired them from a hobby, volunteer work or previous job. It may be helpful to write out the occupational descriptions from jobs you’ve had in the past to see what skills you actually used there.

By knowing what interests, skills and talents you possess and what comes naturally to you, you can then honor your own uniqueness. When you “play” all day doing the things you enjoy, work is no longer a task but a natural extension of who you are.

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