Ten tips on how to engineer a flexible career with your transferable skills

Do you love your job? Does it offer you the variety and challenge you need? If not, taking a more flexible view of your skills could let you design something that will make every Monday morning a pleasure.

In a world where change is the only constant, the days of people remaining in the same engineering job for more than 40 years are in decline. Your career path is no longer a fixed journey from A to B, but often a more fluid route that takes in the whole alphanumeric spectrum. But with skills shortages in a variety of sectors offering additional opportunities, you may even decide to apply your skills to a whole new area.

Working within the consultancy environment we see this every day: our people take their expertise and best practice from one area and apply it to solve problems in other industries. Key to this flexible approach, however, is identifying the necessary transferable skills to make cross-sector working a success. Outlined below is a ‘top ten’ of the transferable skills you should include on your CV