What are transferable skills?

A transferable skill is a skill that you can take with you from one situation or another

The term "transferable skills" describes any skill or talent that can be taken from one kind of job to another. Its opposite is specific or dedicated skills. So a specific skill might be when someone learns how to use a specific kind of computer software that is used only at one workplace. Since that software isn't used anywhere else, knowledge of how to use it isn't a transferable skills. But the same worker, in the process of learning how to use that software, might also have learned a lot about how to use computers. That knowledge of how computers work IS a transferable skill, since it can be valuable in a lot of different workplaces.