Start with where you want to go
Choose the job, return, career change or work direction you want to move toward.
A guided, science-based online skills tool
Find the skills your next job needs — in the life you have already lived.
The Research Institute for Skills Transfer (RIST) helps you recognise the transferable skills you use at work, at home and in your community — especially the ones a CV can miss.
In one free, guided 30–40 minute online session, Ricco — RIST’s skills tool — helps you turn your life experience into clear, practical evidence for job applications, interviews and your next role.
keeping several things moving
responding to different needs
staying calm under pressure
Your experience is bigger than your CV
Your job titles show only part of what you can do.
Every role can be a place where you practice skills. As a parent, caregiver, volunteer, student, community member, newcomer or worker, you repeatedly notice, decide, adapt, coordinate, communicate and solve problems.
Those skills may be useful for your next job even when the role where you practiced them does not appear on your CV.
Every role can be a skills practice ground. You can learn to see what that role has trained you to do.
listening through pushback
finding common ground
building agreement
Your roles. Your evidence. Your next move.
Find it. Prove it. Use it.
Find the roles where you practiced it
Look at real situations across work and life and identify what each role repeatedly required you to do.
Build evidence you can use
Confirm the behaviour, name the work-ready skill, and prepare to use it in your CV, applications and interviews.
Structured prompts guide you through each step. You remain the expert on what reflects your experience.
My role and evidence
Father
“As a father, when people push back on a decision, I listen to what matters to them and help us find a way forward.”
The skill my evidence supports
Negotiation and influence
I listen for concerns, uncover priorities, reframe disagreement, build common ground, and help people reach a decision without losing trust.
How I could use it next
In a client-facing role, I could use this skill to understand objections, build confidence in a proposal, and move people toward an agreed next step.
FatherHandling pushback on a family decisionListening and finding common groundNegotiation and influenceStakeholder conversations in a client-facing role
What you build
Leave with evidence you can use in your job search.
You build a clear view of the skills you already use and practical language for presenting them to employers.
Your Skills Map
See which roles have acted as practice grounds for your skills. Keep each skill connected to the situations and behaviours that make it credible.
Project coordinator
Former teacher
Volleyball player
Community volunteer
Caregiver to my parents
Mother
ME
Seven roles become one larger picture.
Your Work-Ready Portfolio
Turn your strongest evidence into material you can adapt for your CV, applications and interviews — focused on the work you want next.
Turn lived strengths into specific professional value.
- Coordinates calmly under pressureBalances competing priorities, keeps people informed, and maintains momentum when plans change.
- Builds agreement through pushbackListens for concerns, identifies shared interests, and negotiates practical next steps without losing trust.
- Adapts to different needsChanges communication and support to help different people understand, contribute, and move forward.
Example CV profile
“Calm, adaptable coordinator who manages competing priorities, communicates clearly when plans change, and builds agreement among people with different needs.”
Meet role criteria with evidence—not just claims.
Example criterion: Demonstrates stakeholder management and the ability to influence others.
“While coordinating a youth team, two parents objected to a revised schedule. I spoke with each of them to understand the concerns behind the pushback, separated fixed constraints from preferences, and proposed a rotation that protected both training time and family commitments. Both supported the change and the season continued without a missed session. This shows how I listen through disagreement, negotiate workable solutions, and maintain trust—skills I would use to align clients and internal teams in this role.”
“Tell me about a failure you experienced. What did you learn?”
“While organizing a community event, I assumed volunteers understood a revised setup plan. On the day, two important tasks were missed and opening was delayed. I took responsibility, reassigned the work, and kept participants informed so we recovered quickly. Afterwards, I introduced a written task list, named owners, and a short confirmation check. At the next event, we opened on time.”
What I learned: Clear communication is not just sharing a plan; it is checking that responsibilities are understood. Since then, I build confirmation into every handover.
Ricco organizes the roles, evidence and language you confirm into these two outputs.
Work is changing
Know what you bring to work with AI.
AI is changing tasks, tools and expectations. You still bring judgment, adaptation, communication, problem-solving and the ability to work with other people.
By tracing these skills back to roles and real situations, you can explain how you would use them in AI-augmented work.
Choose the outcome you are working toward.
I am looking for my next role
Find skills I can use for a job, return to work or career change.
Start my free sessionI support people moving into work
Give participants a structured way to recognize and evidence skills from across their lives.
Organizations & PartnersI research or support skills transfer
Help validate how people recognize skills across roles and carry them into work.
Research & EvidenceYour first session is free
Your first Ricco session is free.
If you choose to return for future sessions, those sessions may become paid. Any price will be shown clearly before you begin.
The free first session is part of RIST’s social objective of widening access to whole-life skills recognition.
NGOs and institutions can also work with RIST to facilitate access for the people they serve.
Your next move
Start with the skills you already have.
Spend 30–40 minutes looking across your roles and leave with a Skills Map and work-ready evidence for the work you want next.