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10 Transferable Skills

Transferrable Skills

Business Strategy

Leadership and Team Management

Problem Solving

Teamwork Ability

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Time Management

Work Ethic

Commercial Awareness

Listening and Providing

Transferable Skills

As part of your portfolio, you will need to look at all your work and academic experiences, and determine how to best present them to provide a comprehensive and powerful digital body of work. For this class, your portfolio should be comprised of key coursework completed during the sports management program, relevant work experience, your resume, and any other pertinent information you would like to showcase.

Additionally, your portfolio is a living document that you can use beyond this class to showcase your accomplishments, share with prospective employers as part of the interview process, and/or use to build your brand. As such, after graduation from this program, you should update your portfolio as you move throughout your career.

Your portfolio is also a great way to showcase the transferable skills you have gained through your experiences in professions other than sports, and show how they lend themselves to the sports profession. When transitioning from one profession to another, showing how your experiences fit in your new profession is a critical component to promote yourself to future employers. Transferable skills can help to show how your experiences in one profession helped to prepare you for another profession.

Skills such as teamwork, problem solving, managing, negotiation, time management, and data analysis are key components of many professions, as opposed to being exclusive to one profession or another.

For Week 2, it is suggested that you login to Portfolium and add information you feel is relevant to the "Skills" section of your portfolio. This will allow you to make consistent progress in order to complete your portfolio by the end of the course.

Whether you’re a current student, have just graduated, or graduated several years ago, Career Services is here to help you at any point in your career.

For this week’s discussion, go to the Career Services page at the APUS Library. Once there, click around and review the many different things they offer. Once you have checked things out, watched some videos, read some of the articles, or possibly even reached out to one of the career services staff members, share what you discovered with your classmates. What did you learn? What things do you think might help you in your job search? Is there anything you were looking for that you couldn’t find?

Discussion Guidelines

Resume red flags….not having internship….diversity in job, but not frequent…overstating experience..too many pages to resume, and not key words, too many leaderships, too much on resume….keep resume short and simple

Nonverbal co mmunication, eyes mouth, looking in other directions

Business etiquette..happy hour with co workers, put cell phone away…..how you eat

Professionalism….timeliness, assertive…respect empathic

Public Speaking – know your topic, don’t talk right away, captivate audience, energy, don’t read presentation, open body language..

Candid career.com in the Library career videos

Rockawin, D. (2012). Using Innovative Technology to Overcome Job Interview Anxiety. Australian Journal of Career Development (ACER Press), 21(2), 46–52. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1177/103841621202100206

Chi, C. G., & Gursoy, D. (2009). How to help your graduates secure better jobs? an industry perspective. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 21(3), 308-322. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1108/09596110910948314

Born, A., & Witteloostuijn, A. (2013). Drivers of freelance career success. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(1), 24–46. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1002/job.1786