Recently, a listing of blog topics, for a Career Collective to which I belong, prompted an association to Jeopardy! Perhaps it was the listing of categories in search of answers, but in a flash, I was thinking, “l’ll take re-tooling for 100, Alex.” And in my rapid free association, the answer “commodities” came to mind, quickly followed by, “What do you call transferable skills?” As a career coach, I’ve long believed that one’s ability to identify transferable skills was the biggest part of the battle in conveying value to a potential new employer. And perhaps, at one time, it was. No more. Today, any effort to re-tool, re-focus, or re-organize your job search and career management, means giving up past career models so you can re-align your efforts to meet today’s reality. And today’s reality calls for much more than a bullet list of transferrable skills put at the top of a resume and regurgitated in a cover letter. Even if they hope against hope that … [Read more...]