Sell Your Transferable Skills & and You Will Dramatically Expand Your Marketability Pt. 9

If you’re not sure of your skill sets and experience factors to market, review the next few pages. The more ways you describe your experience, the more you will qualify in many industries.

Skills & capabilities

Ability to get things done quickly
Action-oriented
Ambitious
Analyze situations rapidly
Astute researcher
Bring order out of chaos
Bring out creativity in others
Broad administrative skills
Consistently find new alternatives
Conceptual thinker
Contacts at highest levels
Creative
Decisive
Diplomatic
Direct large meetings skillfully
Drive out-of-box thinking
Easily win people’s confidence
Effective at dealing with the public
Effective at organizing labor
Effective moderator and mediator
Enterprising / dynamic
Entrepreneurial strengths
Excellent recruiter
Excellent trainer
Exceptional people skills
Exceptional team player
Flair for putting on events
Genuine & sincere
Grasp technical matters quickly
Handle rapid change easily
High achiever / gives 100%
High energy / enthusiastic

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Sell Your Transferable Skills & and You Will Dramatically Expand Your Marketability Pt. 7

Our SOAR process & how it works

Situations. Describe a job by outlining the situation when you began, making it interesting.

- Opportunities. Then describe opportunities the job presented. For example, When I joined the firm, sales had been declining for three years. I saw the opportunity to target new areas.

- Actions. Next, move to actions taken by you and others (the team). These actions are the most important part of the SOAR process, and a great place for the descriptive phrases.

- Results. Then relate what results occurred. For the R in SOAR, try to quantify the results. For example, you cut costs by $100,000 or / 20%. In administrative situations, you can measure results with statements like I did it in half the time, or the system I developed was adopted throughout the company, or I won an award. Indicate positive things you did to help your organizations. Describe how you helped your management meet their goals, and the results they achieved. Show how you demonstrated a skill or a personal quality.

Create stories that demonstrate benefits you can bring. If you successfully managed the integration of two teams following a merger, and the new business gained market share and/or costs were reduced – by all means say so. Wherever possible, quantify with dollar amounts, percentages, etc. Even an average SOAR story is better than none at all.

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Use These Seven Proven Rules for Interviewing Success Pt. 2

Tell Stories That Make People Remember You

In these stories indicate positive things you did to help organizations. The idea is to show how you demonstrated a particular skill or a personal quality.

Develop SOAR stories that cover situations where you can demonstrate the value of fresh thinking as a means to improve productivity or solve problems. Employers need to feel that you are the answer to one of their problems. If you can show them how you met or exceeded the needs in other places, they may conclude that you can do the same for them.

The idea is to create stories that demonstrate the benefits you bring. Remember, your “tickets” alone (degrees, titles, etc.) will not necessarily motivate another employer to hire you. You must use action words and phrases that add interest beyond your credentials. In the final analysis, employers hire people for what those phrases imply.

(Originally published on Robert J. Gerberg‘s site)