Holland Codes vs Transferable Skills 

In life, we are searching for identity, purpose and meaning.

We are in a process of transition, ever changing and evolving.

In our journey through life, we have changing goals.

In the beginning, we

  • Complete training opportunities

We develop a better understanding of our identity, purpose, and strengths.

Then, seasons change, and we have to transition to something new.

Yet, with change, we have to continue to develop a better understanding of our identity, purpose, and strengths - our interests and skills.

A great place to begin is discovering or reviewing your strongest interests and skills.

As a review, your RIASEC interests match jobs to job codes, interest clusters, work personality environments, or personality types.

The RIASEC or Occupational  Codes are -

  • Realistic

  • Investigative

  • Artistic

  • Social

  • Enterprising

  • Conventional

A transferable skill is a learned or acquired behavior, activity, competency, or proficiency.

Knowing about transferable skills will help you prepare to be successful in the workplace or business. Transferable skills are a product of our talents, traits and knowledge. These skills determine how you respond to new activities, work situations or jobs.

Transferable skills are non-job specific skills that you have acquired during any activity or life experiences. Your activities and experiences include work, campus, and community activities, class or work projects, and assignments, hobbies, athletic activities, internships and summer part-time jobs.

Transferable skills‍ ‍fall into three (3) groups: Working with people, working with things, and working with data/information.

These terms are : 

  • Working with people skills - Skills that happen when people sell, train, advise, and negotiate.

  • Working with things skills - Skills that occur when people repair, operate machinery, sketch, survey, or troubleshoot.

  • Working with data/information skills - Skills that involve budgeting, researching, and analyzing.

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A table displaying Holland/RISEC career model areas, codes, and transferable skills. Columns include career areas like Things, Ideas and Things, People and Ideas, People, People and Data, and Things and Data; RISEC codes such as Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional; corresponding codes letters R, I, A, S, E, C; and transferable skills including Physical, Analytical, Creative, Interpersonal, Communicative, Organizational, Numerical, and Informational.
A diagram with an octagonal shape divided into four quadrants, illustrating different aspects of a business or project. The top quadrant is labeled 'Business Operation (Conventional)'. The right is labeled 'Technical (Realistic)'. The bottom is labeled 'Science (Investigative)'. The left is labeled 'Social Service (Social)'. The center contains arrows pointing in various directions, with labeled areas 'Data,' 'Ideas,' 'People,' and 'Things' around the arrows.