Some transferable skills would be like if I was to go get a veterinarian's job well I've been around cows and big animals most of my life so I could take the skills from handling the cows and use that in my new job to keep from getting anybody hurt when I stick a needle in the cow. It would be called experience and if a boss thinks you have experience then he's more likely to hire you because you would take less on the job training in result dropping the chance you'd get hurt. Does that help?