The other day I encountered a great article at the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning site where they discussed a terrific list of so-called transferable skills that students could feature on their resumes to add punch and personality. I'll paste an image of that list below, along with a link to the source at the utoledo.edu website.

What really caught my eye is that the article highlighted nine that they felt were the "most important skills", and here are the first two that they selected:

1- Research skills

• Know how to find and collect relevant background information
• Be able to analyze data, summarize findings and write a report

2- Critical Thinking skills

• Be able to review different points of view or ideas and make objective judgments
• Investigate all the possible solutions to a problem, weighing the pros and cons

Given that this blog was created in support of my Intro to Research course it was interesting to see these skills as numbers one and two!

Here's the full list, along with the link to the source:

Source: http://www.utoledo.edu/success/career/pdfs/transferable_skills_checklist.pdf