How to Identify and Talk About Your Transferable Skills, with Zach Moore

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Check out the podcast on Macslist here: (https://www.macslist.org/?post_type=podcasts&p=15159&preview=true) You want to switch careers or fields, but you aren’t sure if you have the skills necessary to be successful. What do you do? According to Find Your Dream Job guest Zach Moore, you take the time to figure out which skills you can transfer to that new field. What skills do you possess in terms of working with others, managing projects, or recording data and analytics? Zach also suggests thinking of a job description as a “cry for help,” and figuring out how your skills can answer that cry and solve that problem for the company. About Our Guest: Zach Moore is the career pathways manager at College Possible. It’s a nonprofit that coaches students from low-income communities to and through college. Resources in This Episode: To learn more about College Possible and its vision of ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to attend college, visit collegepossible.org/. Zach looks forward to connecting with you on LinkedIn; find him at www.linkedin.com/in/zach-moore-85558239/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.5	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.
1:20.2	I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max Fless. It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:29.5	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to get the work you
1:33.3	want. You're moving into a new career. How do you show employers that what you did in your old
1:40.2	occupation applies in your new field? Zach Moore joins us to discuss how to identify and
1:46.5	talk about your transferable skills. He's the Career Pathways Manager at College Possible.
1:54.2	It's a nonprofit that coaches students from low-income communities to and through college. He joins
2:00.2	us from Portland, Oregon. Well,
2:02.1	let's get going, Zach. Let's start with definitions. What do you mean exactly when you talk about
2:06.4	transferable skills? I love this question because it represents, transferable skills represent
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