Transferable Skills

One of the things we found very useful in this environment is the concept of transferable skills. Again this is touched on during the classes, and EDD has a section on it. We found that a little more detailed approach was really useful to the more professional jobseeker. First, there are two documents posted on EU from Lee Dorman called “Management Information Composite Research” and Functional Organizational Hierarchy Corporate Titles”. Use these documents to choose six to ten job titles that you think might be good fits. Now go into O*net(http://online.onetcenter.org) and take the Skillset Analysis test. Then enter a specific job title in the “search” box, and you will get three things: you get your O*net skillset evaluation of how you fit that job, you can click on the job and get much detail on the job (much the same as the two previous handouts created), and third go near the bottom and look up the salary. Enter the box by state for California. Record your skillset % and salary range for each of the six to ten jobs you looked up. Take one page per job lookup and write those per page.

Take your most detailed resume and one by one write all of YOUR skills that you believe you have and write them on each page where they apply. What per cent is on each page. ( I have 36 total so a page where 29 appear is an 81% page. You get the idea.)Now enter all of them on an Excel spreadsheet. List the title, the four ratings and then sort the page, best to worst using all four categories as sort criteria. If you hand wrote this on the back of a shopping bag just look over the list and use common sense.

We actually have forms for this exercise that will give you a nice spreadsheet and a smokin hot graph. Email me @ e.stacyjackson@yahoo.com and I will send them to you on behalf of the group. Just remember that common sense also works. By now three or four categories probably look worth exploring and two or three do not look as good as you thought they would. By using transferrable skills you will be able expand the bandwidth of your job search. Good luck.