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Navigating Career Transitions: Tips for Using Transferable Skills

Learn about the significance of transferable skills in academic settings and how they can aid in job placement, career promotion, and successful job searches. Discover major categories of transferable skills, useful activities, and networking strategies for career transitions.

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Navigating Career Transitions: Tips for Using Transferable Skills

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  1. Transferrable Skills in Academic EnvironmentsSharon L. Milgram, Director NIH OITE

  2. My Career Path • Three different jobs • Physical Therapist, Welkind Rehabilitation Hospital (1984 – 1986) • Faculty, UNC-CH (1994 – 2007) • Director, NIH OITE (2007 – present) • All using similar skills, but to varying degrees and in very different ways • Analytical and problem-solving • Interpersonal • Communication • Each transition was difficult in the same ways • Was I certain I wanted the job? • Could I let go of what I already had? • Was I “good enough” to get the job, keep the job, and thrive in the job?

  3. Job Placement Elements of A Job Search Job Searching Gain Credentials Try it ‘on’ Knowing Self Knowing Options

  4. New Position Elements of A Successful Career Promotion New Job Search Modify Responsibilities Take on New Roles Knowing Self Knowing Opportunities

  5. Playing To Our Strengths • We all want to go to work and shine • Important to define skills as specifically as possible • Important to define developmental needs to work around them • For career transitions, it is often important to examine your transferrable skills • Skills you have acquired during any activity in your life that are applicable to what you want to do in your next job • Any activity means at home, in the community or at work

  6. Major Categories of Transferrable Skills • Communication • Analytical and problem solving • Human relations and teamwork • Organizational management and leadership • Work ethic and approach

  7. Useful Activities • In peer review • Study section • Editorial board position • Scientific leadership • Organize a scientific meeting • Role in professional society • Campus life • Curriculum development • Graduate studies committee • Training grant director • Campus-wide committees • Community life • Plan community-wide events • Leadership role on town/city council, schools, library, etc

  8. Developing Networks • Read Networking for People Who Hate To Network • Have a set of standard questions you might ask • Know what you will say when asked “what do you do?” • Find people doing what you are considering doing and reach out to them for an informational interview • A unique form of networking designed to collect information about a job, career field, industry, or company. • Useful before and during career transitions

  9. Some Reflections on My Transition • Mentors played an important role in helping me decide when and what • Informational interviews expanded my view of the opportunities available • The decision challenged deeply held beliefs about who I was and what I wanted to be • Work in the community with non-scientists helped me develop a different set of skills • I wish I had taken more leadership and management training earlier in my career

  10. Keep In Touch • Connect with me on Linked-In (no Facebook please) • Join the NIH Intramural Science Linked-In group • Read the OITE Careers blog • Email me anytime at milgrams@od.nih.gov

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