How to demonstrate your transferrable skills

Even at this stage of lock-down, there are roles and vacancies available. Ordinarily, they may not be exactly the type of role you would go for - and you may be thinking “I don’t have any experience that I can demonstrate for the vacancies that I have seen”. If this is the case, you need to focus on what skills you do have that are relevant to some of these vacancies.

Of course you can’t suddenly gain a required professional or technical qualification, but there will be many vacancies for which you will have strong transferable skills so it is important that you emphasise these throughout your application, on your CV and during your interview. These skills can go a long way to persuading a potential employer that you are a fit for their company, even if you don’t necessarily have the experience.