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You are also constantly building your transferable skills– the skills
that can help you in different jobs and situations. The public speak-
ing skills you learned in your speech class can help you give a pre-
sentation to your boss on the job, or help you promote healthy
snacks to students during final exam week. Being able to show
patience at your own doctor’s appointment, can help you be patient
with a difficult client. Transferable skills can be hard or soft skills.

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Technical Skills

Technical skills or “hard skills” are
physical things you can do or special
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knowledge you have to do a task or
solve a problem. You are learning new
technical skills all the time, whether
you're taking a class, working on the job, or hanging out with friends.
Here are some examples of technical skills in dietetics:
Sample Technical Skills

Food preparation Assessment
Menu formulation Assessment and screening
Food preparation techniques
Purchasing. Medical record reviews
Food safety Care plan development
Knowledge of health, Documentation
safety, and issues related techniques.
to food consumption Nutrition in disease
trends Physiological and
Nutrient composition of biochemical aspects of
foods, food additives, food nutrition metabolism
allergies and Biochemical and
hypersensitivities physiological principles of
Naturally occurring toxins, nutrition for sport, obesity,
pathogens, pesticides, eating disorders,
biotechnology-derived respiration, alcohol
foods metabolism, inborn errors,
Irradiated foods immunity, cancer
Food laws and regulations. The nervous system and
trauma.

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