BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Transferable Skill
- a skill typically considered as not specifically related to a particular job or task. Transferable skills are usually those related to relationship, leadership, communication, critical thinking, analysis, and organization.
Additional Resources
- Identifying and Marketing Your Transferable Skills
- The ongoing globalization of the world economy means that market demands are changing monthly, weekly, and sometimes even daily. People who invested years of time and tens of thousands of dollars training for "hot" careers are discovering that their skills are no longer in strong demand.Today it's not enough to...
- Articles 2007-05-08
- Latinas Bring New Skills to Work
- As Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor moves through the confirmation process in the U.S. Senate, we are likewise witnessing a new cohort advancing to the levers of power and influence in this country: the wise Latina. Just as Generation X or Generation Y possess certain characteristics that...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Robert Half International Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Our first question comes from Andrew Steinerman with Bear Stearns. Go ahead, please. Andrew Steinerman - Bear Stearns Good evening, gentlemen. I am going to need a little more explanation on why Protiviti operating margins didn’t increase sequentially even though there...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- 10 Mistakes Managers Make During Job Interviews
- 10 Mistakes Managers Make During Job InterviewsMissing mistakes at interviewsThe most annoying mistake Managers make at interviews is to fail to manage time. Interviews commonly run over time, leaving other applicants who have planned carefully to arrive promptly, with the feeling that the employer/process is dodgey. In the present competitive...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- Deciding Whether to Become a Contract Employee
- "Contract employee" is another way of describing "work portfolio," a term coined by Irish author and philosopher Charles Handy in his 1989 book The Age of Unreason. Envisioning a new work structure, Handy contended that many professionals were increasingly likely to have not one career with one or two organizations...
- Articles 2007-08-23
- Fear Factor: Sarbanes-Oxley Offers One More Reason To Tackle Enterprise Risk Management
- Article explores that traditional risk management works best on financial and hazard risks, the risks that are transferable. ERM, by contrast, stresses the management of operational and strategic risks. A bank's operational risk would be its back office, in terms of how its payments are made and its credit-underwriting processes...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Thinking About a Career Change?
- Lifelong careers are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, at least in western Europe and North America. People now have more than three career changes during their working life, according to statistics. But what does that mean exactly? The University of Nebraska defines career change as...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Has Your 'Good to Great' Gone from Mediocre to Downright Awful?
- For the majority of the 5.4 million managers working in 30,000 companies, this certainly appears to be the case. As a country we are facing a crisis in management at proportions we have never seen. The magnitude of its effect is hard to predict and magnified due to the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Jobs: Importance Of Skills Emphasis On Job Interviews
- Skill emphasis during the interview is important to show the employer what makes you different from all the other job candidates. In this competitive world, companies search for the most qualified employees by weighing skills of the candidates and determining how they would benefit the company. Skills are grouped into...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- 3 Steps To Landing Your Dream Job
- Prepare yourself. Landing your dream job will probably not happen over night without any effort, research is key. A great place to start is looking at the skills you already possess and how you can excel at your desired career with these skills. Transferable skills is a keyword employers love,...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Stay Employed over 50
- To fill in that giant hole the bear market left in your retirement plan, you'll likely have to work longer. But staying employed after 50, is tougher than ever. So, plan early. Stay healthy. Keep your head in the game. And prep to make less... Your retirement plan probably goes...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Shore Up Your Beleaguered Finances
- Uncle Sam thinks you're too rich to help, so you'll have to help yourself. Keep Your Income Flowing In past recessions, the little guy or gal took the brunt of the job losses. Now, however, a high annual income — one over $100,000...
- Articles 2009-05-04
