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Leadership skills, teamworking skills, communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills are among transferable skills vital for every profession that university graduatesneed as long as they are professionally active, irrespective of their field of study, careeradvancement, area of responsibility or professional reorientation. Through team presentations,students are exposed to and process complex information to provide solutions to problems,organize and communicate specialized knowledge in a professional manner. The article viewsteam presentations as interactive learning environments simulating professional interactions andenabling assimilation of transferable skills, particularly key linguistic and communication skillscrucial for study and future employment opportunities.The main goal of the authors is to devise a linguistic/communication skills inventory helpful notjust for successful academic results but also for smooth career development. The second goal isto demonstrate how team presentations as instantiations of task-based learning, can be used inthe class to develop such an effective skill base. Considering their teaching experience, theauthors view this inventory at the intersection of linguistic proficiency and communicationapprehension since practice demonstrated the students’ speaking skills are extremelyheterogeneous from students who are proficient language speakers but poor communicators tostudents who are excellent communicators but poor language speakers