Graduate school gives you the chance to develop new skills and sharpen those you already have. Whether you know it or not, you’re also developing skills that go beyond teaching and research; these transferable skills can be applied to work you might do in academia, business, industry, government, or non-profit organizations.
Transferable skills, like leadership and adaptability, are ones you develop in a particular setting—or to meet a specific goal—that can be generalized and applied to many different jobs and settings.
See which skills you can learn as you progress toward your graduate degree in our recent blog post titled Gaining Interpersonal Transferable Skills through Graduate Study.
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