Applicable skills refer to the skills you have extracted from all sources. These are “soft skills” you've gained that can help an employer but aren't immediately significant to the job you seek like parenting, schooling, hobbies, sports, volunteer positions, classes, projects, virtually anything -- that are transferable and applicable to what you want to do in your next job.
Asking yourself questions like, "What are my top accomplishments?" or "What activities make me feel good?" will help you find these skills easily.
Start with the job that you seek. Consider everything you have done and understand the skills required of the job. Identify the most important abilities you'll need to perform the work well. Then look over your experience and describe what you've done before in terms of what you want to do next.
Examples of applicable skills: Communication, client retention, sales and marketing, multitasking, human relations, teaching, development, time management, patience, computer science degree, team player, work ethic, trainable.
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