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Learning agility

Meaning in job interviews & careers, with examples

nounCommon term

In job interviews & careers, learning agility means: The ability to learn from experience and apply that learning in unfamiliar situations.

In Turkish: öğrenme çevikliği

How it is used

Show how lessons transferred to a new situation, not only how fast a course was completed.

Example sentences

  1. Her learning agility became clear when she applied lessons from retail to hospital scheduling.

    Learning is transferred across unfamiliar working contexts.

  2. The recruiter asked for an example of learning agility during a major role change.

    A new role can reveal whether experience leads to flexible learning.

Common collocations

  • demonstrate learning agility
  • develop learning agility
  • upskillTo learn new skills or improve the ones you have, often so that you can keep up with changes in your job or industry.
  • transferable skillsSkills you have gained in one job, course of study or activity that are also useful in a different job or industry.

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