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Transferrable Skills

From Home to Job: Transferring Your Skills

Being a homemaker involves many of the same skills as you find in jobs that pay good wages. Think about your skills and how they could be used for a good paying, satisfying career.

Your Skill Is:

Your Ability Is:

Your Job Could Be:

Writing letters

Reading to children

Reading magazines

Giving instructions

Reading and following instructions,
recipes, etc.

 

Verbal and reading aptitude

Technical Writer

Airline Dispatcher

Heavy Equipment Sales

Clergy Worker

Public Relations Specialist

Using fractions in a recipe

Budgeting money

Counting change

Measuring fabric

Numerical and math aptitude

Accountant

Auto Parts Salesperson

Computer Programmer

Industrial Production Technician

 

Using a sewing pattern

Applying makeup

Arranging furniture

Planning a garden

 

Form perception

Machinist

Tile Setter

Auto Body Repairperson

Painter

Blueprint Reader

Landscaper

 

Assembling household equipment and toys

Visualizing furniture arrangements or floor plans

Spatial aptitude

Millwright

Auto Mechanic

Pattern Maker

Computer Aided Drafter

Electrician

Design Engineer

Plumber

 

Sewing

Ironing

Making beds

Applying makeup

Styling hair

Embroidery

 

Finger and manual dexterity

Telephone Serviceperson

Typesetter

Small Appliance Repair Technician

Electrician

Welder

 

Sweeping and mopping

Turning pancakes and eggs

Driving a car

Gardening

Motor or eye-hand, eye-foot coordination

Truck Driver

Heavy Equipment Operator

Machine Operator

Power Truck or Fork Lift Operator

Drafting

 

Lifting a child, carrying groceries

Rearranging furniture

Shoveling snow

Lawn mowing and yard work

Strength

Warehouse worker

Dock worker

Mover

Construction Laborer

 

Cooking

Housework

Ability or interest in working alone

 

Building Maintenance Worker

Security Guard

Long Distance Truck Driver

Entertaining company

Planning parties

Taking care of children

Volunteering in the community

 

Ability or interest in working with people

 

Foreperson (foreman)

Manager

Insurance Salesperson

Chef

Service Station Attendant

 

Adapted from “Transferable Skills,” part of the curriculum entitled Training, Placing, and Retaining Women in Nontraditional Jobs

Southern Maine Coalition for Women in Trades and Technology September 2000

 

To complete a questionnaire to identify your transferrable skills, visit

ISeek.org.