Get the Job You Want - Identify Your Strengths and Skills By Waller Jamison

An article by Waller from Ezine

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If you are trying to get the job you want but have had no success, try identifying your career strengths and skills.

Everyone has certain strengths and if you want to find yours, take a look at the jobs and activities in which you have done well. You don't need to limit your list to tasks you've carried out at work, you can include strengths observed in any aspect of your life.

Strengths can include skills and personal qualities. Let's start with skills. You will probably have a number of skills which are specific to your career or past jobs. For example, if you are a nurse, you may be skilled in certain procedures or in working with patients with a particular illness or on a specialist ward. If you are a teacher you may be skilled at dealing with disruptive pupils or working with children who was special educational needs.

You'll also have a range of soft skills, which are in big demand by many employers these days. The good thing about soft skills is that you will have many of them without realizing it and they can be transferred from one job to another. One of the most important soft skills are communication skills, which include both verbal and writing skills. Another is the ability to relate well to other people, both c0-workers and customers. And others include teamwork, the ability to work under pressure and on your own initiative.

Personal qualities might be patience, a cheerful attitude, determination or confidence, all of which can have a positive influence on the way your perform your job.

You will have had many different roles over the years and in each of them you will have developed skills which can be transferred to other areas of your life. Let's look at a couple of these.

All adults have been students at some point, whether at school or college and will have honed a few solid transferable skills in the process. These include computer skills, time management skills, such as meeting deadlines and communication skills when writing assignments or giving presentations.

If you are a parent you will also have many organizational skills, such as prioritizing and forward planning. You'll also probably be pretty good at problem solving and conflict resolution.

So, the first step is to look at your different roles and work out which skills and attributes you have used to good effect. However, listing these strengths on your resume or in your interview won't get you far. The trick is to use examples which prove that you have used them.

Being clear about your own strengths, identifying your transferable skills and highlighting them will put you in a strong position when it comes to getting hired.

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