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Looking for a job?  Focus on skills

2/5/2013

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Transferable skills.  That's something that we all need to be careful to cultivate in our careers.  If your education is in the humanities/arts, your focus should be on building some concrete skills in an area such as marketing, accounting/bookkeeping, database management, etc.  These types of hard and specific skills, when combined with your broad-based humanities education will make you a killer employee over time.  You'll understand the big picture and you'll have functional/technical expertise.

If on the other hand, you have been trained/educated in a specific technical area (such as a programming language, a machine process, some IT application, etc.), then your challenge is to make sure that your skills and knowledge aren't too narrow to remain useful over the long-term.  Try broadening how you look at your area of knowledge.  How can you be an expert in a functional area, not just in one narrow task?

Many people are still struggling out there: looking for a job, looking for a better job.  We can rail against the government and against employers all we want.  But at the end of the day, if you have a solid, transferrable set of skills, in an area that is important to many many employers, you will find work.

But it takes time and care to acquire skills.  So if you are feeling stuck, try focusing on what you need to add to your resume in terms of skills.  And hang in there.

Good luck, and peace!
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    LG

     

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