Looking for a new job, whether it is with a new company or a promotion within your own organisation, requires time and effort. To make your job search more effective you need to take five fundamental steps on the road to success:
Analysing your skills
Writing a winning Resume
Managing your job search
Coaching for interview success
Negotiating your job offer
Step 1: Analysing your Skills
The most crucial step in the job search process is to assess what skills you have to offer to your future boss. At an interview you will have to tell your story. An interviewer will not remember your precise details, but they will remember your story, once it is filled with practical examples.
This means that you have to be able to explain the four ‘what’s’ of your job:
What do you do?
What skills do you require to successfully carry out your role?
What have you achieved?
What benefit did your company get from employing you?
The answers to these questions can be used to draft a one-minute sound bite of the skills that you have to offer to your future boss. This sales...