Transferable skills
A “work for life” is something that Australian workers no longer seem to want. But even if you wanted to stay in the same role, it would be an improbable possibility – the digital age has transformed the labor market forever.
These days, an average Australian worker will change employers three times every ten years. This means that you might feel five different careers in a lifetime!
The change of roles could be triggered in many ways, for many reasons – a need for change or desire to recycle. There is also a risk that technology progresses, your role can become obsolete.
So how do you prepare a labor market constantly in a state of flow?
The best solution is to rely on your Transferable skills.
These capacities are not purely technical or specific to a particular type of work or career. It is rather skills that your future employers are looking for and are in high demand, such as:
- Communication skills: Listening, speaking in public, confidence in playing in the real world
- Collaboration skills: Networking, teamwork, compromise, diplomacy
- Agility and flexibility Adapt to the evolution of landscapes
- analytical skills: problem solving and critical thinking
- leadership capacities: motivate and direct
- Information management skills: Knowledge of computer software and relevant research.
While Employers are increasingly wanting people who have these skillsThey find that many graduates looking for jobs do not have them. Consider expanding your skills by studying a Microcredity courses in view.
Our bonus Seen Block Model® is designed to improve the skills of students on a scale never seen before in Australia; This learning model fully develops transferable skills among its graduates.
Thanks to practical learning, based on problems and integrated into work, as well as smaller classes and larger collaboration opportunities, students receive possibilities to improve their transferable skills and obtain that employers are sought.
Thanks to this, you will gain confidence and skills asking to start the career – or careers – of a lifetime.