Portable Skills

I liked this link because it explains portable skills and non portable skills. http://jobsearch.about.com/od/careerdevelopment/a/portablecareers.htmthis link is helpful because it is explains the need to have portable skills by human resource person http://community.elearners.com/all_blogs/archived_blogs/b/bellevue_university/archive/2010/02/25/portable-skills-why-you-need-to-know-this.aspx
this a link on how to sell your self on the resume with some marketable skills. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/skills-to-put-on-a-resume.html

The one thing these links have in common is the importance in portable skills whether you are beginning or you have been in your career for some time now, apparently no one is safe from the ever so rapidly spreading disease of  money hungry corporations looking in their best interests for power with employees as recyclable objects.  I have always heard that as long as you do what you love you will never work a day in your life. Now I think this means one should have more than one love.
I believe one of the best assets to posses is to be personable,friendly, forgiving,open minded,and most important be able to work with your hands. A person that can work well with his or her hands will always have work, no matter the economy. for example: If you work in construction, then classes in blue print reading will propel your career. a person that can sew can open up his or her own business either making his/her own clothes or altering others clothes, especially with fashion expanding beyond the known brands.

My portable skills include the ability to use the power within my company as a manager to creatively resolve customer issues without hurting the company and in turn creating positive word of mouth experiences which have a big impact on future business.  There was a situation when we as a company failed to deliver a customer her seats for her dinning table, she called my showroom very upset complaining that she gave us the money and customer service was not helping her and she had a dinner party on the weekend. We could not have a truck out to her area in time so I had the chairs delivered to my showroom and I personally delivered them to her in my car. This was not the first time I had to do something like this, you see our company had independent contracting company doing their deliveries. Needless to say the customer was very happy and it was not the last time we saw her. I started out in sales and within six months my manger promoted me to assistant manager.  I implemented policies within our showroom that were not necessary for other locations.