Transferable skills: how experience from one job fits another

Transferable skills are the ones you can take from one kind of work to another. Changing field doesn't mean starting from zero. A good CV translates what you did into words the new employer recognises.

Examples from common jobs

• Hospitality: working under pressure, customer service, handling complaints, cash handling, training new staff.
• Retail: sales, stock control, visual merchandising, opening and closing, rotas.
• Care work: patience, record keeping, safeguarding, communication with families and professionals.
• Parenting or caring at home: organisation, budgeting, negotiation, juggling priorities.
• Driving and delivery: planning routes, time management, working alone, customer contact.
• Events and production: logistics, suppliers, budgets, problem solving on the day.

How to show them

• Use the new employer's words. If a job asks for "stakeholder management" and you dealt with suppliers and managers, say so.
• Give one real example per skill: the situation, what you did, what happened.
• Put a Skills section near the top, grouped into a few headings.

How KindHire uses them

KindHire's fit score gives credit for skills that transfer, not just exact matches. So a restaurant manager is shown as a good fit for operations roles, and the score explains why.