What are skills? – That a great question!
Skills refer to the things you do really well. The key to finding the most appropriate job is to match your skills or qualifications to employer requirements and to communicate those skills by using a CV or resume.
It sounds easy, its not. Its take time and a great deal effort, you need to do a lot of research and write a powerful resume to back it all up. Finding your career path is never easy; but it can be fun as well as rewarding,
Majority of the most viable skills are those that are used in a variety of work settings. What are these skills? Would matching your skills to find the right job be successful?
The first thing you need to do is site down and list all the skills you think you have, make your list long, think hard!, remember you are selling those skills to a future employer.
Why do you need to do this?
You want to put yourself at the front, you want to become the leading candidate for the job. Remember I said write down all your skills does not necessarily mean it was adapted in a work environment. If this is your first job search and you have no job experience to date, why not show other of skills which you have.
Majority of skills, including knowledge-based and transferable, could be absorbed and developed as a volunteer, a student, a homemaker, or in your other personal activities. The skills you have used for these activities can still be applied to your desired jobs.
Why do I need to do this?
Organising and listing your personal skills can help you easily fill out job applications, provide useful information for job interviews, and prepare quality resumes. BENEFIT- It saves your time filling in forms and employers can scan read and pick out the core skills-
What’s a core skill?
If they say in the job description you must speak a foreign language, then that is a core skill.
How do I organise and list my skills? - Another good question.
First, categorise your skills by separating your interests and aptitudes from your work experience.
1) Aptitudes and interest. These include all of your hobbies, activities you have been involved in the past, and all the things that interest you. By listing all of these down, you could examine the skills it takes to achieve each item.
Skills from aptitude and interest may be homemaking, playing basketball, fixing cars and many more. All of these items could determine if you are capable of working with a team, able to handle multiple tasks, have viable knowledge of human development, knowledge of electronics and ability to diagnose mechanical and numerical problems. The list goes on, but make sure to consider the skills that would be beneficial for a working environment.
2) Work history. This includes volunteer, part-time, freelance, summer and full time jobs. Once you have listed all your past employment, examine the skills you do work each work duty.
* Ask for help. As soon as you have your list ready, you could now go to job services that could help you acquire your desired job. You could also search job yourself. However, always remember to match your skills and abilities in your list to the needed skills and abilities of various jobs.
In most cases, people who seek jobs are threatened with job titles. This should not be the case. As long as your skills and abilities could meet the requirements of the workload and job title, your possibility of acquiring your desired job increases.
