Chapter Two
What does this have to do with employment? Identifying and Reflecting on Your Transferable Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
Now that you’ve spent some time reflecting on your identity and intercultural competency, let’s take a deeper dive into all the transferable skills, knowledge, and attitudes you acquired while you were away.
In this chapter, we’ll explore what transferable knowledge, skills, and attitudes are and unpack the skills you developed during your international learning experience. We’ll also practice developing accomplishment statements by identifying and categorizing your transferrable skills. We’ll end the chapter by turning your accomplishment statements into accomplishment statement stories that you can use in job interviews.
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Define transferable knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs).
- Identify, list, and categorize the transferable knowledge, skills and attitudes you acquired or enhanced during your international learning experience.
- Write accomplishment statements to demonstrate your transferable knowledge, skills and attitude.
- Use your accomplishment statements to provide concrete examples of your KSAs to potential employers in written (resume) or verbal (job interview) form.
