Finding the Jobs

My client recently described the tasks she’d performed at her old job and together we made a surprising discovery:  she had many more qualifications than she realized.

It turns out that instead of straight administrative work, she had single-handedly overhauled a department, writing proposals for her executive director.  But not only that, she developed a new recordkeeping system that moved the organization from an index cards(!) reporting system to a computerized one.

Clearly, she hadn’t given herself credit for a great many talents.  But to make her resume stand out in a way that fully reflects her accomplishments, she and I had some work to do.

My client is like so many of us in the midst of a job search.  We all so desperately want to find satisfying, good paying work, that often we forget that one of the best ways to achieve that is by first assessing our skills and interests.  Doing that shortens, not lengthens the job hunt because the assessment enables job seekers to identify exactly the kind of work we want.

Need help in figuring out your skills and the right kinds of jobs for you?  Check out the Department of Labor’s MySkillsMyFuture and MyNextMove and aarpworksearch.org websites for assistance.