How to identify and use your skills efficiently

1. Identify your skills ¡. Prepare a list of your skills by reviewing your previous work, wether in a paid employment or as a volunteer. ¡¡. Review and add identifiable foundational skills. ¡¡¡. Review the skills typically required of the job you are interested in, ie. Marketable skill. ¡v. Make a list of all those achievements, or similar "good experiences" that you have had in the past 2-5 years `wether work`related or not. Those you feel you did well, enjoyed doing, and feel proud of doing. Add these skills to your list. They are called your motivated skills v. Add all the identified skills, rank and choose the best seven. Now,for each one chosen, write down or tell someone the following: ¡. What you did ¡¡. How you did it ¡¡¡. What happened 2. Know the skills Employers want ¡. How strong are your foundational skills? Take a careful look at them. These are skills all Empoyers need from a prospective employee. ¡¡. When you see discriptions of jobs you want, pay close attention to the skills the employer wants. These are work content skills. ¡¡¡. Learn what peculiar skills are required for the job in which you have an interest.