Transferable Skills are abilities you acquire through jobs and work experience as well as from your personal life (hobbies, sports and other experiences) that can be used in a new job or career. Transferable skills are especially important to those who are facing redundancy, new graduates who are looking for their first jobs and to those returning to work after an absence.

Trying to decide if your business should be a for-profit business, a charity non-profit or a social enterprise?

Take this assessment to understand how your preferences in terms of corporate structure, asset ownership, profit distribution and business objective determine the kind of business structure your enterprise requires.

Both Social Enterprises and For Profit businesses make a profit for their owners. By answering this series of questions you will be able to determine if your business preferences would be best met by a Social Enterprise or a For Profit business. You will also become familiar with business structures, like Company Limited by Share and Company Limited by Guarantee that are shared by both business models.

For Profit Businesses and Social Enterprises can limited in one of two ways: either by Shares or by Guarantee.

Take this assessment to see which legal structure best meets your business requirements.

Cooperatives can be used to establish For Profit businesses, Social enterprises and Charities.

By completing this assessment, you will learn whether your business needs may be best met by creating a cooperative.

Business Development Assessment directs Scottish SMEs and Entrepreneurs to the most applicable resources in the Scottish Innovation Support System. This assessment has been written by VentureNavigator Scotland.