Considering Transferable Skills in Talent Acquisition and Retention

35mIntermediate2022-09-01

Authors

Don Phin

Speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Author

Course details

If you’re an employee, identifying and utilizing your transferable skills can lead to career opportunities and growth. If you’re an HR leader, employee shortages and the rapid rate of change require you to take a hard look at someone’s transferable skills. In this course, leadership trainer and keynote speaker Don Phin shows you what you need to know to utilize transferable skills as both an employee and an employer.

Discover the power of transferable skills, why they matter, and how to take advantage of them with prospective employees. Explore use cases of soft and hard transferable skills with specific examples drawn from Don’s personal and professional experiences. By the end of this course, you’ll be ready to fully identify the value of transferable skill sets to make your company a place where employees choose to stay.

Skills covered

Coaching and MentoringTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - What are transferable skills

1. The Importance of Transferable Skills

02 - Why transferable skills are more important than ever
03 - How the rapid rate of change is impacting the workforce
04 - How employees can take advantage of transferable skills

2. Examples of Transferable Skills

05 - Soft transferable skills
06 - Hard transferable skills
07 - A personal example of using transferable skills

3. Identifying Your Transferable Skills

08 - Identifying and assessing your soft transferable skills
09 - Identifying and assessing your hard transferable skills
10 - Ways to improve your soft and hard transferable skill sets

4. What Employers Can Do

11 - Just how relevant are job descriptions anymore
12 - Move them before you lose them
13 - Help employees develop transferable skill sets

Conclusion

14 - Next steps