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What's included in this Program:
2: Capitalize on Your Strengths
Last Update: 3-2-03
The Resume Kit gives you a new way to define your capability for future work and build the confidence that comes from having thought through your value to others and how to make this obvious to those reading your resume. Your education and experience is just one part of this equation.
You are not a job title. To get the kind of opportunity you have targeted for yourself, you need to clearly articulate your strengths and capabilities, not just past job titles, duties and courses.
Employability and marketability are twin keys to your future. Employability is the measure of your ability add value to products and/or situations for the benefit of a company's customers and stockholders. Marketability is your ability to communicate qualities, skills and accomplishments with flexibility and insight to a variety of positions that meet your criteria. Combine the two and you become a true job master.
In assessing your skills and capabilities in advance, The Resume Kit presents a set of inventories to build a database of value in language that will become the building blocks for future marketing. This language can be used in your resumes, cover letters, interviews, follow-ups and personal planning. Combined, they form your real net worth: your market value.
In addition to taking inventory of your talent, skills and accomplishments, pay attention to your values and interests, both for the power they add to your resume and interviews and to the personal motivation they build when they relate to the work you are after. Key words and phrases are essential to today's digital resumes. Crafting them based on your future contributions rather than just past titles adds versatility and choice.
Job Families are groupings of jobs based on common industry bases and definitions. In The Resume Kit there are scores of them. When you match strengths and interests and then review the job families you will see opportunities to move into areas you might not have thought of.
In this step there are several inventory pages for personal assessment, categories of strengths and ways of cross-indexing them. What is most important for you is to take a fresh inventory, looking forward. Today's employers are more interested in what you can do next than what you did in the past.
In The Resume Kit there are a number of pages on this subject including worksheets, assessments
The Skill Interest Grid, Job Families and more.
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