Why your transferable skills don't care about your industry

Natalie Hoop on squiggly careers, the confidence problem, and multi-unit retail as training ground.

📚 What You'll Learn

1. Why your transferable skills don't disappear just because you're sitting in front of a new audience, industry, or type of work

2. How confidence is a learned skill that comes from taking ownership of who you are and what your secret sauce is

3. Why rejection isn't personal - when someone says no, they're saying no to their vision of what fits that spot, not to you

✍️ Some Takeaways

• We've been programmed to believe we need specialisation to succeed, but humans naturally keep growing and developing - it's odd to think we'd do the same work at 60 that we did at 18.

• Women especially have been trained that humble is the way to go, that accepting compliments is ego-driven and frowned upon - but learning to take ownership of your abilities is essential for communicating your value.

• Multi-unit retail experience teaches foundational transferable skills that apply across industries and roles you never imagined pursuing.

• Life happening to you rather than being designed can be the path to where you need to be - intentional design often only becomes possible after you've accumulated unexpected experiences.

Where to find Natalie Hoop

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliehoop/

Where to find Milly

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milly-tamati/

Website: http://www.millytamati.com/

Generalist World Resources:

Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qbGzMU...

The Generalist Quiz: https://www.generalistquiz.com/

Essays: https://www.generalistcareer.com/

Upcoming events: https://lu.ma/generalist.events

Positioning Guidebook: https://www.generalist.world/positioning