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- 1. IDENTIFY YOUR SKILLS POST UNIVERSITY, CAREER SERVICES CENTER DEBRA MANENTE, M.ED., CPRW ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NORTH HALL, ROOM 103 DMALLICK@POST.EDU
- 2. TODAY YOU WILL LEARN • What are transferable skills? • The difference between transferable skills and duties/tasks • Types of skills • How to assess and develop your skills
- 3. TODAY YOU WILL LEARN… • Skills employers want • How to use better Action/Power words • How to show your benefit • Always qualify yourself
- 5. SKILLS VS. DUTIES/TASKS SKILLS = Abilities you’ve acquired that you can apply to the job you are pursuing DUTIES & TASKS = Things anyone can do but does not demonstrate your true abilities ACCOMPLISHMENTS = Things you did with the skills you have acquired SKILLS + Can enhance your value as an ACCOMPLISHMENTS = employee; this is how you grab attention In order to stand out you need to QUALIFY yourself with your Skills and Accomplishments.
- 6. TYPES OF SKILLS THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF SKILLS1. Technical/Professional 2. Functional 3. Personal/Adaptive
- 7. TYPES OF SKILLS 1. TECHNICAL/PROFESSIONAL • Job/Industry • Education • Computer/Technical
- 8. TYPES OF SKILLS TECHNICAL/PROFESSIONAL EXAMPLES COST ACCOUNTANT (industry related) • Published Executive and Board statements and facilitated weekly forecasting • Processed and settled intercompany accounting transactions and dealt extensively with foreign currency issues (education) • Bachelor of Science in Accounting • President of Accounting Club (computer/technical) • Expert knowledge of database systems and TSI/SQL queries
- 9. TYPES OF SKILLS 2. FUNCTIONAL These skills are related to people, information, or things that are transferable from one field or occupation to another
- 10. TYPES OF SKILLS FUNCTIONAL - EXAMPLES Wrote research papers and created graphs while utilizing Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Publisher and PowerPoint applications Worked with a wide range of diversity while being a team-leader at McDonalds Reorganized the tracking system for accounts payable (AP)/accounts receivable (AR) while working as a summer intern Known for providing exceptional customer service…
- 11. TYPES OF SKILLS 3. PERSONAL/ADAPTIVE Skills that represent your style of work/integrity, are often called personal traits or self-management skills.
- 12. TYPES OF SKILLS PERSONAL/ADAPTIVE - EXAMPLES Cooperative Dependable Persistent Adaptive Accurate Timely Self-motivated
- 13. TYPES OF SKILLS Always have examples to use to back up the skills you say you have.
- 14. ASSESS AND DEVELOP YOUR SKILLS What does the employer need to accomplish? What skills and personal qualities do employers want? What skills would be expected of you regarding your career choice?
- 15. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT According to a Spring 2013 study by National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), there are certain skills employers want in the people they hire. They are: • Decision making and problem solving skills • Planning, organizing, and prioritizing with little supervision
- 16. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT… • Analytical skills • Verbal communication skills • Technical knowledge and computer proficiency • Ability to write and edit reports accurately • Ability to influence others and sell an idea
- 17. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT… What is expected of someone in this career choice or a recent graduate? ? • Research ? ? ? ? ? • Job description • Understand the personal qualities that make someone in your particular field successful
- 18. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT EXAMPLES Open minded Motivated Efficient Industrious Mature Cheerful Energetic Creative Punctual Intelligent Enthusiastic Dependable Problem Solver Intuitive
- 19. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT EXAMPLES – HOW CAN YOU… • Demonstrate where you had to listen to instructions and act with minimal guidance • Use examples that show you can conquer job challenges by thinking critically and creatively • Show examples of how you work well in a team and are easy to get along with
- 20. SKILLS EMPLOYERS WANT EXAMPLES – HOW CAN YOU… • Prove your leadership ability • Show how have you been organized and planned accordingly What others can you think of….?
- 21. ACTION/POWER WORDS 1. Conveys the image of a successful “doer.” 2. Describes accomplishments and brings power to your message.
- 23. ACTION/POWER WORDS… By beginning each bulleted accomplishment statement with a strong action verb, this highlights your successes and allows the reader to get a sense of your skills It is a good idea to vary the action verbs on your resume in order to demonstrate the vocabulary of a college graduate
- 24. ACTION/POWER WORDS… INSTEAD OF REPLACE WITH Helped Facilitated Worked Produced Acted as Mediated Responsible for Managed Entered Categorized
- 25. SHOW YOUR BENEFIT In order to grab an employer’s attention you need to assess your skills and constantly qualify yourself.
- 26. 1. Take the job description and highlight or circle the requirements, skills, and keywords that are important. 2. Analyze the job description and think about how you meet their needs.
- 27. JOB REQUIREMENT/KEYWORDS HOW DO I QUALIFY? Fast-paced Worked at McDonalds Self-starter, work independently Classes – required to work within deadlines and follow strict research guidelines; GPA 3.7 Website development, branding, marketing Internship – Kept company intranet updated and accurate. Logged hundreds of hours researching marketing trends, branding techniques, and topics related to website development then presented the findings to the advertising staff - required to write weekly reports. Strong communication skills: writing, verbal Internship - Wrote weekly reports and presented minutes at weekly meetings Time management skills - Can prioritize and is organized McDonalds – Had to prioritize and be organized to survive working at McDonalds Computer skills Accustomed to working with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook Leadership skills Acted as shift leader and trainer at McDonalds
- 28. QUALIFY YOURSELF Qualifying yourself is knowing how to show what the benefit is of hiring you.
- 29. EXAMPLE QUALIFY YOURSELF • The employer is looking for someone who feels comfortable working with people in a customer service capacity… • Accustomed to working with a wide range of diversity while working under pressure in a high sales atmosphere OR • Looking for someone with strong computer skills… • Have clocked over 500 hours of research while utilizing Microsoft Office Word and Excel applications
- 30. WE ALL HAVE SKILLS Meeting Deadlines Organizing Planning Managing Projects Public Speaking Effective Communication Supervising/Instructing Leadership Troubleshooter Interpersonal Abilities Researching Sensitive to Diversity
- 31. RECAP • What are transferable skills? • The difference between transferable skills and duties/tasks • Types of skills • How to assess and develop your skills
- 32. RECAP… • Skills employers want • How to use better Action/Power words • How to show your benefit • Always qualify yourself
- 33. NEXT WORKSHOP LEARN HOW TO WRITE A WINNING RÉSUMÉ Friday, November 8th Macdermid Hall, Room 116 12:45 to 1:40
- 34. WE CAN HELP •Résumé writing •Letter writing •Effective interviewing •Job search strategies should you want: • Full-Time/Part-Time employment • Internships • Winter/Summer employment
- 35. VISIT US Optimal Resume = https://post.optimalresume.com/ Linkedin = http://www.linkedin.com/in/postuniversity careerservices Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/PostUniversity CareerServices YouTube = http://www.youtube.com/user/PostCareer Center Twitter = https://twitter.com/PostCareerCntr Pinterest = http://pinterest.com/PostCareerSvc/
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- There are basically three groups skills can fall under: Job Related Skills which are called Technical OR Professional skills, Functional Skills and Personal OR Adaptive Skills.
- These are skills that are related to the job or you as a professional in your chosen field.
- Now that you understand what types of skills are out there, you need to assess what skills you currently have. In order to develop the skills that would be expected of you in regards to your field of choice there are several things you need to take into consideration…. Also, think about the things you have accomplished and tasks that you have done where someone gave you praise or told you that you did a good job. There are always things that we are good at but sometimes we forget what they are. This is where you need to take a deep look at yourself and talk with people who can help you realize that those skills are.As you begin your job search or consider careers that would be right for you, it is important to know what you are good at and what you enjoy doing. During college, you developed many skills from coursework, extracurricular activities, internships, jobs and you total life experience. If you’ve researched, written, edited and presented papers for classes, you’ve developed skills that you can transfer to others parts of your life. A potential employer wants to see examples of the skills you have learned and how you applied them. Simply saying you have a skill is not enough to get noticed. You need to have examples of how you applied those skills and why they would be important to the employer. In this day and age you MUST have examples of your hard work that you can talk about. These are called “Success Stories” and you can begin to form your success stories by understanding what skills you already possess. You should understand yourself and have a handful of success stories to pull from when you walk into the next interview. Tell story about the time when I hired someone who said they had all the skills we were looking for but then when asked to do a task, they didn’t know what to do.
- Employers also look for particular qualities in employees. You can learn these things by researching the company, reading the job description and by understanding what personal qualities someone in your field of choice would be required to have. For example, if you are a police officer, you would be expected to be able to work while under pressure and be able to handle critical issues in a split second. If your major is human services and you want to be a social worker, you would be expected to be empathetic, caring and patient since you probably would be working to help people solve problems which would require lots of understanding. Also, if you know you aren’t good with numbers, you might not want to look for a job in accounting. Again, understanding what your skills are and how to apply them is half the battle.
- Always take the extra step by understanding what it is the employer needs and then apply those skills to yourself. Can you do what the employer needs? How have you done XYZ in the past? The trick is to take the tasks and job duties you have and show what you have accomplished while doing them. Take these accomplishments and match them to what the employer seeks. This is how you show your benefit by giving examples of how you have done a project, or how you plan to do a project for the employer and how this accomplishment can save them time, money, etc….
- We all have skills….which ones are YOU good at?