Instead, workers must now create their own stability by building a strong set of transferable skills and thinking two steps ahead.
"Your skills are transferable to the classroom: thinking on your feet, acting independently, being a good listener and being a leader.
It is worth sitting down an looking at your CV and thinking about what transferable skills you do have.
As I've applied for a few more jobs and done quite a bit of thinking about my transferable skills, although I still find personal statements the hardest.
The finding that CREATE Cornerstone students at CCNY similarly made significant gains on this test in a single semester suggests that transferable critical-thinking skills, such as those measured by the CAT, can also be built through classroom activities that do not involve hands-on inquiry labs.
My academic CV, which went on and on about kinetics, fluorescence, and other things that would have sent someone outside my field running, was thrown in the fire, and I started thinking hard about what transferable skills I had gained during my time in academia.
Thinking about my single non-transferable vote has become much harder as a result.
"It might be worth thinking about how you can gain transferable skills through volunteering or work experience before you spend money on a master's," adds Suzanne Romano, senior graduate recruitment officer at Teach First.
The analytical skills and ways of thinking engendered by a training in science allow useful transferable life skills to be gained for future employment, whatever the eventual sector chosen.
I was just looking, thinking, 'what can I do, if I have any transferable skills, what can I do?
