How To Identify Your Skills
This is all about extracting the detail from your day to day.
If your working experience is limited, your skills will mainly be from your studies, this probably includes things like meeting deadlines, creating presentations, and organizational skills. If you have worked in hospitality or retail, your key skills will be customer service, communication, punctuality.
Look for your skills in the job description:
Identify the key elements in the job advert and adapt your skills to fit.
- If the job advert mentions this is working in a “fast-paced environment” it probably needs someone who works well under pressure, and has excellent time management skills.
- If the job advert mentions you will have autonomy on your sector, then they are looking for someone who can manage their own workload, and meet strict deadlines.
Give Examples
As you add these skills to your CV, its worth noting why the made the list, most likely you will be asked at interview to give examples, have these ready in your mind.
- Remember STAR – Situation, Task, Action, Result