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TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

Careers Research Project

Summer Term 2020
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We are all different. What type of animal are you?

Find out by taking this Buzz Quiz

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Labour Market
The term ‘labour market’ is used to describe the place where employers hire
people to work for them. In the last twenty years the labour market has been
changing rapidly due to technological developments.

Task 1
• Open Word and copy and complete the table on the next slide.
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MOBILE PHONE Designing

Manufacturing (making)
Marketing and Advertising
SOCIAL MEDIA e.g. Facebook,
Instagram……
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JOB SECTORS
Jobs can be put into groups or sectors. Some examples are:
Farming,
Health and Creative and
Construction Forestry and Retail
Social Digital
Fishing

Hospitality and
Low Carbon Engineering Law or Finance High Tech
Tourism

Young people, such as you, are predicted to have TEN TO FIFTEEN DIFFERENT
JOBS in their working lives. This is likely to involve working in a number of
different jobs in one sector and will almost certainly involve moving between
sectors.
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Task 2
• Research TRANSFERABLE SKILLS (look at least three different websites)
and produce a Powerpoint presentation or a series of posters to cover
the following:

 What are ‘Transferable Skills’?

 Eight examples of Transferable Skills that you think are the most
important.
 Explain why each one is important for people in jobs regardless of what
that job is.
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Task 3
• Identify the Transferable Skills that you think are strengths of
yours and give examples of how you have developed those skills. For
example, you may believe you have developed your ‘Ability to Work in a
Team’ when playing for a sports team.

• Identify the Transferable Skills that you think you need to focus on
developing and explain how you are going to do this for each one.
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Extension Task(s) – choose one or both

• Write a short report (2 or 3 paragraphs) explaining how Transferable

Skills are important to you now and how they will be important to you
in the future

• Write a short report explaining why Transferable Skills are more

important to young people in 2020 than they would have been to
young people twenty years ago.