TRANSFERABLE SKILLS SCALE

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PACKAGE OF 25 • TSSI837W

Price $37.95

Program Contents: 8.5" X 11" 6-panel foldout

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Copyright Date: 2007

Research suggests that only 25% of the skills we use on the job are technical skills specific to that kind of work. The other 75% are transferable skills—i.e. skills which are useful and often essential in most jobs and thus are valued by all employers. Those skills—like the ability to manage a group, create a spreadsheet, or speak persuasively—are especially important to job seekers as such skills can qualify them for a wide variety of positions and give them an edge over their competition. Knowing your best transferable skills allows you to explore jobs based on what you can do, not necessarily based on where you’ve worked in the past. As such, they are especially invaluable for people looking to change careers, enter the workforce, or return to work after a long absence.

The Transferable Skills Scale is a short assessment designed to identify an individual’s strongest transferable skills. Based on the data, people, things, ideas model used extensively by the Department of Labor, it asks individuals to rate their skill levels on a total of 96 tasks. The resulting score helps define their skills levels in eight categories: Analytical, Numerical, Interpersonal, Organizational, Physical, Informational, Communicative and Creative skills.

The assessment asks users to rate their level of skill on 96 general workst widely used transferable skills in the world of work. Users rate themselves as Highly Skilled, Somewhat Skilled, or A Little or Not Skilled on each item. Users then score those items into 8 scales representative of the most common transferable skills sets: Analytical, Numerical, Interpersonal, Organizational, Physical, Informational, Communicative, and Creative. The assessment then guides users to explore jobs that use the transferable skills sets they scored highest in. The TSS is broken into 5 easy steps and takes 20-25 minutes to complete and score.