# Week 3 - CVs and transferable skills ### Session: CVs and transferable skills **Session objective:** This session focuses on identifying transferable skills and designing effective CVs, Linkedin and GitHub profiles. {% embed url="" %} CVs and transferable skills slides {% endembed %} #### Exercise (10 min) **Exercise objective:** To identify transferrable skills from different life experiences. List 3 transferable skills to be gained for your previous jobs or educational experiences. #### Exercise (10 min) **Exercise objective:** To identify skills that can be developed during the CYF course. The following is a real ‘junior software developer’ job description from LinkedIn. In small groups, map these skills back to the skills you will gain at the end of your CYF course. Share back with the group. You can collate the answers on a white board. *JOB DESCRIPTION - JUNIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER* *Your skills and experience:* * *Demonstrate passion for technology (personal projects, open source involvement)* * *Have excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications skills.* * *Enjoy problem-solving and be logical.* * *Be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.* * *Like working in a team with lots of different people.* * *Be able to take responsibility for a piece of work from start to finish* * *Be good at planning and prioritising workload* * *Articulate and justify conceptual ideas and solutions to clients and internal teams* * *Focus on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process* * *Fluent in written and verbal English* --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://personal-development.codeyourfuture.io/em-modules/sql/week-3-cvs-and-transferable-skills.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.