Transferable Skills Profiles
Our Transferable Skills Profiles show what different skills look like in real situations. They can help you recognise where you are using these skills across your experiences and offer examples to help you evidence and articulate them confidently.
While our Transferable Skills Language includes around 250 skills, we’ve created in-depth profiles for some of the skills students most commonly want to understand and talk about:
Cognition
Cognition: skills including analytical reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving. These help you analyse information, form ideas and more informed judgements.
Analysis
Analysis means breaking down information into smaller parts to understand how they connect and what they mean.
Decision making
Decision-making skills involve evaluating options, considering consequences, and choosing the most effective course of action.
Collection
Collection: skills for gathering, evaluating and managing information or data. These help you assess evidence, identify trustworthy sources and structure research effectively.
Digital literacy
Digital literacy is the ability to confidently find, evaluate, create, and communicate information using technology.
Evaluation
Evaluation means making judgments about the quality or value of something using specific criteria.
Communication
Communication: skills for working with others, teamwork, engaging effectively and presenting ideas clearly. These help you build relationships and articulate your thinking with confidence.
Communication
Communication is not just reading and writing, but being open-minded and using effective dialogue to build trust when working with others.
Presentation
Presentation is not just about public speaking, but structuring and communicating ideas clearly so that others can understand and engage with them.
Creation
Creation: skills including innovation, creativity and learning from failure. These help you generate ideas, experiment, adapt and navigate unfamiliar or complex challenges.
Creative thinking
Creative thinking is the skill of using an imaginative approach in unique situations, improvising and experimenting to arrive at innovative solutions.
Innovation
Innovation is going beyond obvious answers by employing experimental and creative approaches to arrive at unique and unconventional solutions.
