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**Identify Your Transferable or Functional Skills**
Transferable or functional skills are ones that easily travel between different types of jobs. They are extremely important skills, as they serve as the bridge between where you may currently be professionally and where you may want to end up.
Transferable skills are those that you acquired in one job and can use in a different job. Take a look at the following list of words that describe various transferable skills. Circle your most commonly used top 20 skills.
adjust	drive	network
advise	edit	operate
alter	entertain	paint
analyze	evaluate	persuade
arrange	examine	plan
assess	follow up	post data
assist	formulate	problem solve
blend	guide	publicize
budget	handle	read
calculate	improvise	record
care for	include	refill
classify	influence	regulate
compare	inform	repair
compile	insert	report
compose	install	sell
compute	instruct	serve
conceptualize	interview	service
construct	invent	sew
consult	investigate	sort
cook	learn	supervise
coordinate	listen	synthesize
copy	manage	teach
create	manipulate	test
decorate	measure	theorize
demonstrate	mix	transcribe
diagnose	motivate	type
direct	negotiate	write

Take a look at the skills you circled. Narrow it further to the top 10 that you most enjoy using. Write them below.

Top 10 Transferable or Functional Skills

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SOURCE: Adapted from Janet I. Farley, The Military Spouse's Complete Guide to Career Success (Impact Publications), pages 14-16. Copyright 2008. All rights reserved.