mercredi 27 mai 2009

Matching Your Skills with the Appropriate Job

00:56 Posted by: Marokko Suche 0 comments

By A Nutt

When looking for a job, it is crucial that your skills match the job. If the skills dont match, then there is a good chance that your resume will be passed up and the employer will move on to the rest. That is what you dont want to happen.

What you want to happen is the employer look at your resume and think it is quite impressive because your skills match what it is they are looking for. This is the one way that youre going to land the interview in a work world that is very competitive. With so many workers losing their jobs, there are many more people vying for jobs than what they used to.

Making your skills match

Too many individuals create a resume that they copy and send to every employer that they are interested in. This is not a good idea because every employer requires a different skill set. Although you may possess the skills that each employer wants in an employee, the resume is not emphasizing that fact. The resume has to stand out to each employer in a unique way.

For instance:

If you have experience in inventory and that is something that is important to a prospective employer, you will need to make sure that is listed on the resume. However, inventory may not be important with another employer, so that is not something you want to emphasize.

If applying for a certain position, make sure you show the skills that the position requires even if you havent held that same position in a past job before. Just because you never did the exact same job doesnt mean that you are out for the count. Remember that many in superior positions have those below them do their job duties for them.

Always make sure you list any certifications or other skills that are important to the job at hand. Employers do look for these things. Even if you dont think a certification is important, it is important to list it.

You have to do whatever is possible to make your skills match the job that you hope to get.

Cant do it on your own?

If this is something you dont feel you can do all by yourself, you can get some help. You can hire an HR consultant to help you out.

An HR consultant knows exactly what employers look for in an employee. They also know exactly what has to be done in order to make skills match what a job wants in an employee. They can help you pick out the skills you have from past jobs, the valid certifications, and other important aspects and make them fit perfectly on your resume.

An HR consultant can also help you structure your resume in a way that makes it attractive for the prospective employer. That way they dont scan through it and place it in the do not hire stack. Instead, the prospective employer is able to scan through the resume and easily see those things that are important to the job that they are hiring for. The layout has to be easy to follow, the resume has to be easy to read, and it simply has to stand out from the rest so that it does not find itself with the rest of the rejected resumes.

So to have that amazing resume that matches your skills with the job you are applying for, you now know what you have to do to get the job done. Hiring an HR consultant to help you with this will give you a much better chance at a job than those who try doing it on their own.

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