You’ve seen skills checklists that ask you to tick off every skill that sounds like you. When it comes to telling your story to a prospective employer, it’s still one-dimensional. There’s nothing to back it up.If you want to talk about your skills in a compelling way, you have to go deeper than that. Remember potential employers aren’t interested in your skills; they’re interested in how those skills can meet their needs. The following will help make your story more compelling by letting you demonstrate that.
Reverse engineer to find your skills In a nutshell, you’re going to identify your skills through reverse engineering. You will look at three things:
- Your big picture responsibilities
- The tasks you had to perform to fulfill those responsibilities
- The skills you needed to successfully perform those tasks
