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When someone brings up & #39;building transferable skills& #39;, I ultimately feel like transferring my skills out from the room.

We all have soft skills; what we need is to know how to communicate them.

A selection of soft skills you already have:1/6

- project timeline management: as in the relentless Gannt charts we make for our PhD committees

- budget management: you might be in charge of purchasing reagents/consumables

- stakeholder (expectation) management: you& #39;ve chased your boss and collabs, explained your data 2/6

- communication across a range of stakeholders: you can speak and explain science to anyone from kids to full profs in/outside your field

- emotional intelligence: you didn& #39;t start crying in the lab that time, and you talked down the undergrad who was upset the PCR failed . 3/6

- lateral thinking: you created a brand new piece of equipment to solve a problem.

- responsibility and work ethic: yoy didn& #39;t quit that one time you were upset and nothing worked because it& #39;s *your* project

- coaching and mentoring 4/6

- conflict resolution: when two postdocs were ready to cut each other& #39;s throat, you distracted them with a coffee (replace this with any conflict you& #39;ve encountered)

- self-awareness: you& #39;re reading this thread and finding your own specific examples to each category. 5/6

- personal development: you are proactively looking for development opportunities, aren& #39;t afraid to ask for training when needed.

You are brilliant and capable. Now make sure you let other people know about it. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Rotes Herz" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Herz"> 6/6