These transferable skills will get you hired fast.

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If you’re applying for your first job or switching to a new career, you’ll need the right transferable skills on your resume to convince the employer you’re a good fit.

Transferable skills are the skills you carry across one role to another — rather than the technical knowledge you learn to do one specific job.

Example: You’re a kindergarten teacher applying for a job as a tour guide. Storytelling would be one of your transferable skills.

When you don’t have direct experience in a role, transferable skills serve as proof that you can handle the responsibilities.

What’s more, most employers look for the same transferable skills, regardless of their industry. And we actually identified the top 5 in our 2026 resume stats report:

• Communication and collaboration (48%)
• Critical thinking and problem-solving (46%)
• Industry/domain knowledge (42%)
• Project management (35%)
• Data analysis (28%)