Asha Aravindakshan - Skills: The Common Denominator

Through the stories in Skillsboth of others career journeys and her ownAsha Aravindakshan thoughtfully presents a framework for packaging ones skills to enter new roles. Her narratives are relatable and varied, with tidbits to learn from hidden on every page.

Amelia DeSorrento, Forbes 30 Under 30

Asha Aravindakshan does a great job of bringing together stories of change in Skills. If you want to make a big pivot in your career, this book will give you hope that its possible.

Angela Guido, Founder of Career Protocol and FriendMo and Bestselling Author of Interview Hero: How to Ace Your Interviews, Find Your Voice, and Direct the Narrative of Your Life

In Skills, Asha Aravindakshan tells story after story of people who figured out how to identify their transferable skills, how to package those skills for their prospective next employer, and then how they landed the job in a new field. From these real-world examples, she extracts valuable principles that will be helpful to anyonein any stage of their careerwho is contemplating working in a new field. This is genuinely useful information.

Bob Jones, CEO of Scientific Nutrition Products, National Advisor of Pipeline Entrepreneurs, and Lecturer, MIT Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures

Asha Aravindakshan delivers a structured approach for individuals to determine their strengths and apply that understanding to their professional journeys.

Chip Conley, Founder of Modern Elder Academy

Asha Aravindakshan and the vignettes presented in Skills provide sound, experience-based mentorship for anyone seeking to maximize their potential in the workplace. Highlighting the themes of hard work, persistence, dedication, and problem-solving, this book underscores the non-technical skills that are alwaysand will always bevalued in the workplace.

David Gragan, Chief Learning Officer of DC Government and former Chief Procurement Officer for the States of Texas and Indiana

Asha Aravindakshans Skills is the essential employment guide for the decade.

Devin Thorpe, Author of Superpowers for Good and Adding Profit by Adding Purpose

Skills is a great and informative read, well written with very relatable examples and situations. Included a lot of innovative ideas on expanding business networks that I cannot wait to put into practice, well done!

Donna Day, Director of People at SkyKick

Asha Aravindakshans Skills: The Common Denominator presents the modern approach to using preparation, technology, and social capital to build a career and opportunity sustaining network. Asha invites each reader to reflect on the inherent value of their respective journey.

Joe Scantlebury, Incoming President & CEO of Living Cities

This book is an informative, supportive and tactical guide to identifying and using transferable skills for lifelong career success. Asha Aravindakshans personal stories and the many real-life examples she includes bring the content to life and make it relatable to people from a wide variety of backgrounds and career interests. Highly recommended for anyone considering a career pivot!

Lindsey Pollak, The New York Times bestselling author of Becoming the Boss, The Remix, and Recalculating

Practical steps through engaging, real-life stories. Researched-based contentlike reading Cliff Notesled me to see Skills as a valuable tool I can go to again and again.

Moira Lethbridge, Author of Savvy Woman in 5 Minutes a Day: Make Time for a Life That Matters

Asha presents an informative, engaging, and digestible series of real-life stories. They all clearly demonstrate the importance of continually investing in transferable skills as you build your career. She encourages us all to go for it, and reminds us that the power and skill to do so is right at our fingertips.

Mubuso Zamchiya, Founder of Zamchiya Books and Rhodes Scholar

With thoughtful examples from various sectors, Skills provides a roadmap with various routes to help both young professionals and folks looking to transition careers. The tangible anecdotes give a variety of experiences allowing more seasoned readers the ability to connect the dots within their own career, making it easier to translate their experience to colleagues looking for career advice and recommendations.

Naomi Shelton, CEO of National Charter Collaborative

Using her own and others experiences as examples, Asha Aravindakshan shows us how to use the skills weve developed to move into new opportunities. Skills is a must read for anyone looking to change their career focus in a post pandemic world.

Natalya Bah, Coauthor of The Power of Perspective

Asha Aravindakshan shares invaluable insights from her own personal experience and profiles of others on career planning and transition including understanding and building your transferable skills, finding your passion and how to market yourself for new opportunities. Career paths are oftentimes nonlinear and thoughtful pivots are necessary. Skills explains how to embrace uncertainty, change and converting that into your success.

Peter Callstrom, President and CEO of the San Diego Workforce Partnership

Pivots at work, fueled by personal skills, are the new career currency. By sharing personal stories of individuals skills based on what they do and not where they do it, Asha Aravindakshan provides both powerful and liberating insights. The lesson? For true success and impact, embrace a career that embraces your skills

Ron Reed, Founder and Executive Producer of SXSW EDU

Asha Aravindakshan nails a key point about professional development in Skills. We develop skills in each role, often without realizing it. Oftentimes we need other people to show us that we have proven a mastery of skills that we never realized we had.

Sameer Acharya, Communications and Social Media Consultant and Author of Saraswatichandra

As our lives become exponentially non-linear, it is imperative we learn to embrace and not resist career transitions. Skills is timely and spot on. Not only have I personally leveraged the principals of transferable skills, connecting the dots and utilizing my network, its what I hear my podcast guests share when they describe their career transition journeys. As an entrepreneur, I live by plans A, B and Z!

Sonali Batish, President of Cospan Consulting and Host of My 2.0 Podcast

A fluid read that truly bends ones thinking about career paths. Ive often watched hiring in my profession become laser focused on prior job titles and parallel past responsibilities. But the stories in Skills demonstrate that successful applicants flower for reasons that go well beyond directly applicable experience. Asha Aravindakshan reveals how passion, imagination, and adapted skills contain the real secret of professional potential.

Torey Malatia, President, CEO and General Manager of The Publics Radio 89.3FM

A compelling read that shares easy-to-use frameworks and brings them to life with real-life case studies. I highly recommend Skills for anyone facing a future career pivotwhether planned or unplanned.

Victor Prince, Former COO of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Author of The Camino Way and Lead Inside the Box

Skills is a must read for young people, job hunters of all ages, and anyone interested in the future of work. The author, a skillful storyteller, brilliantly describes specific paths to new careers taken by everyday people. As an educator turned technology entrepreneur, I found myself nodding all the way from beginning to end.