This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want, and make a difference in life.

I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max Lest. It's a job

board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career. Every Wednesday, I talk to a

different expert about the tools you need to get the work you want. You're moving into a new career.

How do you show employers that what you did in your old occupation

applies in your new field? Zach Moore joins us to discuss how to identify and talk about

your transferable skills. He's the Career Pathways Manager at College Possible. It's a nonprofit that

coaches students from low-income communities to and through college.

He joins us from Portland, Oregon.

Well, let's get going, Zach.

Let's start with definitions.

What do you mean exactly when you talk about transferable skills?

I love this question because it represents, transferable skills represent one of really three categories of skills that we

like to think about in the career development space. And this is really, to me, inspired by the book,

What Color Is Your Parachute? It's a pretty well-known and renowned career development book that

stays current year to year.

And they sort of divide the concept of professional skills into these three categories,

one of which is transferable skills.

But the first one they talk about is hard skills.

And hard skills are like knowledge.

They're usually nouns.

We're talking about things like mathematics, physics, data analysis, graphic design, etc.

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