Transferable Skills

When you’re in college, you’re working toward a degree that is needed for your chosen career, which means your college courses will be geared more toward that degree. However, your degree program won’t be made up of only the relevant classes that are geared toward your chosen degree program. In other words, you may be majoring in English or History, but you still need to take some math classes.

Your degree program is going to involve a certain amount of core classes that are the basic classes – you’re going to need some science, math, history, and English classes. If one of these aren’t your strongest classes or you don’t enjoy it as much, then take them earlier in your college career. You don’t want to procrastinate with your college courses and put off those core classes until closer to your graduation.

You may think English, history, math, or science classes won’t have value to your degree program because they may seem quite unrelated. However, you’ll find after graduation that you’ll be using skills you learned in those classes more than you thought. Whatever you do, don’t slack through any of those classes. Do your best as though these core classes are the career path you are taking. You don’t want to slack off during certain classes and have them look bad to future employers. 

You may be thinking that you won’t have to use math or anything you learned in English in your career path, but each career you take will require you to use the skills you learned in those classes. Depending upon what your career path is, you may need to write reports even though you didn’t major in English. To do that, you’re going to need top notch writing and editing skills. You may need to do basic or complicated math even though you majored in English or History. Planning on becoming a teacher of English or History? You’re going to need math to accurately grade your students’ work. 

Other than using these skills in your chosen career path, you may find that you end up having a slight interest in one of these subjects that you would like to pursue a minor in. Nothing is worse than graduating from college and wishing you paid more attention in a certain subject, took it more seriously, or pursued a minor or a second major in that subject. Don’t graduate college with regrets about your coursework or degree. Enjoy every minute of your college classes, don’t slack off in anything, and learn everything you can. You will use it once you graduate, and you may find that you enjoy it more than you ever thought you would.