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Translate your skills to new sectors

What kinds of jobs can I do in ___ Sector? Translate your skills.

 
Translating your skills into language that is meaningful for the sectors you’d like to target is the first step to finding the right fit of job for you. 

Resources

How do you leverage your public sector skills into something that is valuable outside of the Federal Government? 

What tools can help me translate the skills I have into skills that another sector (corporate, philanthropy, non-profit, academia, state/local government) might be interested in?  Career One Stop provides a useful resource for considering how to translate key skills.

Resource Spotlight

Skills Matcher (beta version)

Author:  LinkedIn

Resource Spotlight

Military Skills Translator

Author:  Military.com

Once you have a sense of how your current skills can transfer to specific kinds of jobs in different sectors, check out the next step on revising your resume. 

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