From the course: How to Highlight Your Job Skills
The importance of highlighting your job skills
From the course: How to Highlight Your Job Skills
The importance of highlighting your job skills
- Here's an unsettling fact. You may be going about the job hunt all wrong, and you may have been doing this your entire career. In fact, most people do. while it's common to focus your resume, LinkedIn profile, and other job hunting materials on your work experience, the truth is that this emphasis should actually be on your job skills. Hi, I'm Christopher Taylor, I'm a career coach, resume developer, and job hunt strategist who's worked with clients throughout the nation and across the world to position them to land their dream job. Through my years in the industry, first as a recruiter and now as a coach and a thought leader in career development, I've found that your job skills should be your underlying focus as well as tell the story of your career, your expertise, and most importantly the positive impact that you can have on your next employer. In this course, I'll walk you through step by step how to make your job skills the core focus, and position yourself as the expert that you really are, whether you have a year, a decade, or a lifetime worth of professional experience. You'll be able to highlight your skills online and your networking and your resume and other job search materials as well as in your job hunt strategy. It's never the wrong time to learn how to advance your career, so let's dive in.