#transferable-skills

#transferable-skills

The Marines are a 24-hour responsibility. Once you commit, your personal ambitions take a backseat. Eventually, I reached a point where I wanted to explore those ambitions - specifically, entrepreneurship - while I was still young enough to act on them. I made the decision to leave the service during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - even though the civilian job market felt uncertain, and many encouraged me to stay. But retired service members who had built businesses offered a different message. They helped me realize that the military equips people with more transferable skills than they often think. The transition resources on base reinforced that point, so I felt ready to move on.

"The key is rethinking what you're doing not as a job, but as a set of skills," he said. Once you understand your skills, Roth said to look at the jobs on the rise list and assess where the demand is, "because the demand is super uneven." "Then, start working backwards," Roth said."What are the skills that are required to be a construction planning coordinator or an independent analyst? What are the skills that I have that will get me there?"

Meena Lakdawala-Flynn knew what it meant to perform under pressure years before becoming a partner at one of the country's top banks. Lakdawala-Flynn, cohead of Global Private Wealth Management and One Goldman Sachs, started doing gymnastics when she was two years old. By the time she was eight, Lakdawala-Flynn said she was exercising between 30 and 40 hours a week, and dead-set on going to the Olympics.