Knowledge, know-how, abilities and attitudes that an individual can use across jobs and across his/her career and education or training path.

Comment
  • Transferable skills and competences may refer to:
    • transversal skills and competences:
      • core skills and competences;
      • thinking skills and competences;
      • self-management skills and competences;
      • social and communication skills and competences;
      • physical and manual skills and competences;
      • life skills and competences;
    • specific, job-related skills and competences;
  • in the literature, transferable skills and competences are also referred to as portable skills;
  • this term is close to, but not synonymous with: transversal skills and competences.
Source

Cedefop; European Commission and Cedefop, 2021.