A New Way To View Your Hard Skills: More Useful, More Effective

With the fairception app, you can ask your entourage to evaluate your soft skills to determine your strengths and uniqueness. But not only that.

 

You will notice that your network or close ones can also evaluate your hard skills, that is, your know-how. Here is our approach and what it can bring you.

 

What are hard skills?

 

We have defined hard skills into two categories: “transferable skills” and expertises.

 

But what are transferable skills?

 

Transferable skills encompass a set of know-how that you could use in other positions or in other industries and sectors, thus demonstrating your competencies far beyond a job title.

 

Indeed, we have racked our brains to find a way to express in a more general manner than job titles that are sometimes pompous and often reductive, barely reflecting their exact content or the full extent of the skills required to accomplish them. Transferable skills thus group a set of know-how that you could use in other roles or industries. They are derived from generic lists of the European Union. We have not re-invented anything, especially the wheel, but we have simplified everything.

 

And expertises?

 

Expertises are more specific and indicates your specific capabilities in a domain. In your professional life, of course, but not only that.

For example, one of your transferable skills could be coding (or dev), which implies a set of other transferable skills, but your current expertise might be Python or Django. Expertise is therefore more specific.

 

Should I only cover my professional hard skills?

 

No, gather all of your know-how, but keep in mind that others can evaluate you on them. If, in addition, you are a recognized chef or have built your house all by yourself, add those skills, they are part of you!

 

Why do we use transferable skills?

 

Simply to help people better pivot from one sector to another or to demonstrate that they already possess most of the skills required for a position. Or to evolve…

In current recruitment, many things are based on the previous job title, speculating on what people might have done there. We strive to identify these skills and have them evaluated by your network, that is, those who have been exposed to your work.

In the previous case, we know that if you are a recognized coder (or developer) and have proven yourself in this field, you will likely have the ability to learn a new language. This conviction can be reinforced or diminished by your soft skills. A company looking for an ultra-specialized profile to be immediately operational or a personality that can evolve and learn according to needs can choose to focus on transferable skills or expertise.

 

Feedback on hard skills

 

Of course, your network can also evaluate your “transferable skills” and expertise during feedback, as on many other sites. These recommendations are essential, especially if you have numerous feedbacks. Unlike soft skills, which are based on a ranking, hard skills are evaluated with a double level of endorsement. This allows recognizing where you make a difference.

 

But wait, there’s more!

 

We also do this to be able to offer you career ideas or opportunities based on your know-how and skills. We will soon launch an option to suggest what type of job might suit you based on your soft skills and transferable skills.

 

Types of jobs? But what are job types?

 

Another new jargon from fairception? Not really. As with transferable skills, we think that job titles do not necessarily reflect the real content of a job. We have therefore used calibrated lists from the European Union to identify general job types. We ignore pompous or less significant titles to delve into the granularity of what they represent. On this basis, we can help you more effectively assess, pivot, and help you convince your future employer that you have all the required qualities to trust you.

Therefore, it is worthwhile to carefully select your transferable skills and expertise during onboarding or to revisit them at any time, especially if you expect to receive feedback.

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