Every person’s work identity can be described as a combination of three ingredients: Technical skills (TSs); transferable abilities (TAs) and personal qualities (PQs).

Different kinds of jobs can involve distinctly different percentages of each of these ingredients a nuclear energy plant’s control room operator uses heavy TSs, a poet’s work requires a reservoir of PQs but some mixture of these basic vocational building blocks is present in any viable job candidate. Read More at EmploymentCrossing