How To Amplify Your Transferable Skills
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Are you strategically making decisions that align with the career brand you want to develop?
Tech and thought leader, Lexi B will discuss her career journey and insight on how to build a strong brand based on your passions and strengths.
In this chat, you’ll...
Are you strategically making decisions that align with the career brand you want to develop?
Tech and thought leader, Lexi B will discuss her career journey and insight on how to build a strong brand based on your passions and strengths.
In this chat, you’ll learn:
- Identifying your transferable skills
- How to align those transferable skills to your career brand
- Strategies on how to use these skills for your next position - a position that builds your brand
Meet The Speaker
Alexandria Noel Butler, affectionately known as Lexi B, is considered one of Silicon Valley’s candid and prominent voices.
In April 2017, Lexi B founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, a 9200+ international sisterhood that supports Black career women through community and partnerships with organizations such as Phenomenally, Instagram, Youtube, Linkedin and Slack.
She is a former Stanford Black Alumni Association Board Member and National Leadership Council Fellow.
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How to share that you are working on upskilling through learning coding languages while emphasizing transferrable skills?
By: AngelaPosted on 2021-11-05 -
I am shifting from a career in social work to tech - looking at project manager roles - What are specific skills or language I can used to highlight transferable skills? What are the top skills...
By: AissatouPosted on 2021-11-05 -
How to transfer industries? In my situation, I am having a hard time moving away from manufacturing and into more corporate roles.
By: JackiePosted on 2021-11-05 -
No specific questions
By: StephaniePosted on 2021-11-05 -
List of skills fitting this phrase?
By: JenniferPosted on 2021-11-05 -
How can I best build my brand into my career development plan that I discuss with my manager?
By: MeganPosted on 2021-11-04 -
How to ask for the dream job or something that's headed in that direction.
By: Timothy, Service Desk TechnicianPosted on 2021-11-04 -
What is considered a transferable skill?
By: ChelseaPosted on 2021-11-04 -
I have specific skills I want to share, but the interviewer doesn't always ask about them - how can I navigate the conversation so that they're organically asked by the recruiter even though I...
By: SkyePosted on 2021-11-04 -
How to transfer skills from the admin field to successfully start a career full-time in tech?
By: KarenPosted on 2021-11-04 -
How can I use my skills to identify a role that they would fit in best. In my current job, I notice I prefer time with people than going on to do my own tasks. I would love a role with more space...
By: TirsaPosted on 2021-11-04 -
I have been with the same company for 16 years. In that time my job duties, and the company, have changed and morphed. Most recently, with COVID, the company totally restructured/downsized and is...
By: AllisonPosted on 2021-11-04 -
How should you list these on your resume? Is it better to make a list or work them into your job duties?
By: JaninePosted on 2021-11-04 -
How do you develop and prove the depth of your skillset if much of what you work on is special projects and early incubation of ideas. Would like to try to avoid the “idea fairy” reputation.
By: LexiePosted on 2021-11-03 -
no particular question
By: NikkiPosted on 2021-11-03 -
How to transfer your skills with a HR/office manager healthcare background into the tech space
By: AdriannaPosted on 2021-11-02 -
Transferable skills from a background in Psych and HR into Tech (specifically UX Design)
By: AriellePosted on 2021-11-02 -
What is the best way to bring up transferrable skills in an interview process, without sounding coached or forced?
By: Amy ElisaPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How do I transfer skills to a completely different sector? Non-profit to for-profit as well as a different industry?
By: Janene, Program Project ManagerPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How do we identify our individual impact and quantify it? How do we identify and pinpoint our individual skills from the daily tasks or projects we execute at work? (e.g., led a meeting,...
By: Topaz, Program Project ManagerPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How to sum-up skills in a coherent way when working in a startup and having very diverse roles from being a tech expert internally and externally for partners, working with support team,...
By: EmmaPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How to highlight transferable skills from a career in healthcare sales & customer service without sounding too general?
By: ShewaPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How do I place my transferable skills to match the job description
By: Pascale, CSMPosted on 2021-11-02 -
How could I present in a resume a new skill learned without professional experience?
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How do you decide what your career brand is?
By: RochellePosted on 2021-11-01 -
Transferrable skills from healthcare to IT?
By: Kendrea, Director of OperationsPosted on 2021-11-01 -
1. Is it ever okay to leave a good job after a couple of months for an even better job (pay-wise, in your ideal field etc.)? 2. When it comes to transferrable skills, what's the best way to...
By: MeiraPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I'd like to change careers, how do I highlight the skills I have in a way that applies to the new field of work?
By: Alison, Academic advisorPosted on 2021-11-01 -
Are temp agencies a good way of getting your foot in the door when you're transferring into tech?
By: SergioPosted on 2021-11-01 -
How do you highlight transferable skills on a cover letter?
By: Leigh, HR Business PartnerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
How can I use my transferrable skills for each position
By: AsiaPosted on 2021-11-01 -
What is the most effective way to list transferrable (soft) skills on your resume? What is the best way to talk about them in an interview?
By: Ciara, Product ManagerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
not yet but I'm sure I'll have a few during the discussion!
By: ReneePosted on 2021-11-01 -
I’ve been a creative project manager for 16 years with a focus on digital print projects. I’m trying to pivot to digital (web, visual design, marketing) project management. I have creative...
By: Tricia, Creative project managerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
My company uses unique job titles to is industry, what is the best practice for changing my title that is more well known in different industry (i.e. Course Advisor is my title, but I am doing...
By: JennaPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I am starting a new career in technology. My concern is that since I am coming into the field with limited experience, employers may not consider me to be a viable candidate. I have the soft...
By: Stacey, Project managerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I am landing interviews and even 2nd rounds, and the interviewers and hiring managers seem to agree my skills are aligned, but I am still being passed over for "more aligned" candidates. How can...
By: Shara, Data Entry SpecialistPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I don't have any specific questinos
By: Jorge, MaestroPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I'm an experienced teacher and I'm spending my time LEARNING to code, trying Data Analytics and Project Management. I've JUST started applying but not getting any bites. I have many transferable...
By: Nicole, Science TeacherPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I've been hearing about key words within resumes to match a job description. Could you expand upon that idea and how it can be applied to a job search?
By: Jaime, Placement SpecialistPosted on 2021-11-01 -
I am not from a commerce background so can I get a highpaid job in business arena ?
By: Subid, StudentPosted on 2021-11-01 -
No questions at this time - I'm here for the conversation.
By: Kelsey, Customer Sucess ManagerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
Interested in hearing about her recommendations to present transferable skills on resume or is it best to demonstrate in your interviews?
By: Sabrina, Customer ServicePosted on 2021-11-01 -
Should transferable skills be a separate section on the resume?
By: Karishma, Doctoral CandidatePosted on 2021-11-01 -
How to make a career shift into a different type of Role and how to represent that on your resume.
By: JazzminePosted on 2021-11-01 -
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By: K. Kanthi, Texture ArtistPosted on 2021-11-01 -
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By: ARUN, Program Project ManagerPosted on 2021-11-01 -
Are you really supposed to change around your resume based on the job description? It seems like a pain in the butt to customize each resume, just to highlight your transferrable skills.
By: Kaori, Fullstack DeveloperPosted on 2021-11-01 -
How can you identify transferrable skills to reenter the workforce after a period of time out of the workforce for care giving?
By: Tia, Project DirectorPosted on 2021-10-31 -
What advice can you give to someone that has no prior experience in the tech industry?
By: Yanelly, Behavioral TherapistPosted on 2021-10-31 -
I am a software engineering leader with a long standing passion for user experience. For the most part of my career I was the one laying out the graphical interface and user experience in addition...
By: Bibiana, Director Of Software DevelopmentPosted on 2021-10-31 -
How can transferable skills be identified based on job relevance?
By: Suadikatu, StudentPosted on 2021-10-31 -
Here to learn new things. No questions yet.
By: Ezinne, HR ProfessionalPosted on 2021-10-31 -
I changed career from the journalism to I.T, is there a possibility of leveraging on my past experience with the present one?
By: Oye Dotun, Information Technology Services SpecialistPosted on 2021-10-31 -
Are Cover Letters as important to submit alongside your resume?
By: MichellePosted on 2021-10-31 -
How you can make the best CV?
By: Andrea, Sales AssistantPosted on 2021-10-31 -
Looking forward to tuning in!
By: Emily, ConsultantPosted on 2021-10-31 -
I have a 20-year gap in my resume. How do I show that my skills from 20 years ago are relevant in today's job market? Also, how do you showcase skills acquired from an Interdisciplinary...
By: HollisePosted on 2021-10-31 -
How do you represent and explain a career gap e.g. 2-3 years ?
By: Barrie , Operations ManagementPosted on 2021-10-31 -
no questions at this moment
By: BarbaraPosted on 2021-10-31 -
I've been a SAHM for 8 years now and finished my degree in 2017. I need help trying to find that first job to get me back in the saddle again.
By: KatePosted on 2021-10-31 -
If I'm trying to change careers, in my case from hospitality to technology, how can I use my transferrable skills?
By: IkiPosted on 2021-10-31 -
No question for now.
By: Esther, Head of SAP NetweaverPosted on 2021-10-31 -
How can I use transferable skills to accelerate my objective to break out of being under-employed in middle-management and move into a higher-level leadership position?
By: Kirsten, Product ManagementPosted on 2021-10-31 -
How do I make clear connections between my valuable experience and transferable skills as an entrepreneur to customer support/customer relations/account management positions in tech?
By: Kourtney, Account ManagerPosted on 2021-10-31 -
How can I get around the ATS?
By: Rosana, Director Of Sales And Business DevelopmentPosted on 2021-10-31 -
How would you pivot after being laid off for 6+ months during the pandemic?
By: TaneyaPosted on 2021-10-31 -
Research aside, how do you identify where you belong in tech (if that’s not your background) and then find the appropriate support along the way to attaining your first role?
By: ShanicePosted on 2021-10-31 -
Should you narrow down transferrable skills and make them specific to the position your interested in or want to aim for??
By: Rhonda, Product ManagerPosted on 2021-10-31 -
Not particularly just want to learn
By: MichellsPosted on 2021-10-29 -
What are the most important transferrable skills to highlight?
By: Bernice, Research AssociatePosted on 2021-10-28 -
What are the steps to starting a sisterhood in a particular industry/sector?
By: Undrenia, Program Project ManagerPosted on 2021-10-28 -
I've highlighted my transferable skills and plan to transition into a new industry. How do you keep from looking generic (ie strong organization skills, good communication skills, attention to...
By: Marriam, Director of Project Management OfficePosted on 2021-10-28 -
How to know what transferrable skills to market ourselves for the new position/job when new group/company has different cultures.
By: KaitlynPosted on 2021-10-24 -
How to transition from academic work to corporate?
By: McCoy ElizabethPosted on 2021-10-21 -
Have nothing in mind right now. Hoping there’s an opportunity to ask on the day.
By: LisaPosted on 2021-10-19 -
How to summarize transferable skill on your resume.
By: MelissaPosted on 2021-10-18 -
what is a transferrable skill?
By: TundePosted on 2021-10-15
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