Employers usually evaluate three skill sets:

Content skills:

Related to performing a job in a particular field, profession, or occupation; acquired through reading, specialized training, internships, academic degrees, and on-the-job training. Examples include programming computers, word processing, teaching, and bookkeeping.

Functional skills:

Characteristic ways of working with people, information (data), or things; often referred to as transferable skills; applicable to a wide variety of jobs or situations and may be acquired almost anywhere. Examples include managing, operating, informing, calculating, coordinating, building, and reading.

Adaptive skills:

Rooted in temperament and personality; acquired during one's early years among family, friends, and peers; often referred to as self-management skills since they describe how you operate as a person. Examples include being assertive, careful, dependable, honest, introspective, industrious, open-minded, punctual, and tolerant.