What Are You Good At?

Have you heard of the Back to Business Clubs? They are a fantastic resource for people who are job seeking. Originally set up in Peterborough a couple of years ago, due to the success the concept has been adopted and set up in other counties close by.

I was asked to present at the Back to Business Club on the subject of Skills Transfer.

The main strength the Club offers is the networking opportunities and support, for anyone who is currently job searching you will know it can be a lonely time.

I’ve given several presentations, and was invited back by Alan who runs the Peterborough group with a request could I talk about skills transfer. I thought you might be interested to see an outline of what I talked about and the group got involved with:-


• Being Aware of What You’ve Got To Offer – the group identified their top 3 skills they were taking to the job market.



• Skills Audit – we conducted mini audits to understand our broad skill bases.



• I gave several examples to the group of clients (no names) I have worked with who had used their existing skill sets and taken them in a different career route.



• Using Johari Window small groups shared ideas and gave suggestions to others on where they might transfer their skill base to.



• Finally, we had a lively debate on transferring skill sets from the public sector into the private sector and vice versa.


Being able to clearly identify what you are good at, what your key strengths and skills are is imperative if you are to make any mark on your career.  Yet for a lot of people this is a really hard task.  People often say to me I just don't know.  The reason for this is that our strengths are such an integral part of us and almost we do them, demonstrate them on auto pilot so of course being able to name them is a challenge.

If you are struggling to identify what you are good at and what your skills are, why not give me a call to see if I can help?