It’s Important To Emphasize Right Skills In Your Resume

You must determine which skills and experiences are relevant to your position objective.  You are writing a word picture of yourself in the proposed new job, created out the best of your past experience.

Steps in building this word picture include:

  • Study job objective and ask yourself “what are the 4-5 most important skills required?”
  • Create a series of columns on a spreadsheet for each of those skills or special know-how areas and label each column.
  • Ask yourself, “When did I use those same skills in the past?”  Under each of the skills write action-oriented, simple statements that clearly and concisely describe how you used or developed those skills in the past.
  • Assemble the Relevant Skills and Experience section of your resume by putting the contents of those 4-5 skill columns together on one page.

The primary message your professional resumes communicate should be:

  • You are generally qualified
  • You have the experience
  • Credentials
  • Basic skills needed for the job
  • You are uniquely qualified
  • You own unique qualifications in the areas that really matter for this particular job

Examples of what to include are:

  • Relevant experience
  • Formal training and credentials
  • At least one significant accomplishment
  • One or two outstanding skills or abilities
  • A reference to your values, commitment, or philosophy if appropriate.

A career is a general course that a person chooses to pursue throughout his or her working life.  Historically, a career was a sequence of work-related positions an individual occupied during a lifetime, although not always with the same company.  However, today there are few relatively static jobs.  Career planning must be an ongoing process where an individual sets career goals and identifies the means to achieve them.

Individuals in today’s job market must truly manage their careers.  You should not concentrate only on advancement opportunities, since the present work environment has reduced many of these opportunities.  You need to conduct a realistic self-assessment, which can be as simple as a list of strengths and areas needing development.  Such a list becomes an excellent source around which your resume is built.  Since perception is often reality, it is desirable to write the list of strengths as you perceive them, and not what you think others would say.

A second exercise to help you target the right skills to highlight is to develop a list of career likes and dislikes.  This will help you to recognize restrictions you place on yourself.  The size of firm desired, willingness to travel, geographic preference, can all play a part in which skills and knowledge to emphasize.

When done correctly, your resume presents a wonderful word picture of you, captures the attention of hiring managers, and results in you getting the job.

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