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Page 17 of the Cover Letter Tutorial: Transferable Skills Examples

Emphasizing Your Transferable and Marketable Skills: Key Skills Sought by Employers

The most global and overarching skills and qualities mentioned by career experts that employers seek from job-seekers:

Communication skills (oral and written)
Teamwork/group/interpersonal skills
Leadership skills
Work-ethic traits, such as drive, stamina, effort, self-motivation, diligence, ambition, initiative, reliability, positive attitude toward work
Logic, intelligence, proficiency in field of study

Thus, these five skill clusters can be considered the most important in your first post-college job, and some or all of them will be required in just about any job in your career and can be cited in your cover letters as transferable and applicable skills that you possess.

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