Essential Interviews Tips and Skills To Get You Started!
Essential Interviews Tips and Skills To Get You Started!
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Experience isn’t what you’ve done; it’s what you do with what you’ve done. Everyone who is the same age has the same amount of experience—it’s just that each person has it in different areas. Those different areas are really just matters of focus.
Even nontraditional experience can apply to the requirements of the target job. As you prepare for your interviews, take an experience inventory. Be sure to include knowledge and skills gained from part-time jobs, volunteer work, and community service.
Training is everywhere: adult education programs, community colleges, university extension courses, trade or technical schools, and correspondence courses. If you want to acquire new skills—or brush up on old ones—to meet the requirements of the job you’ve targeted, get the training you need without delay. Just be sure the course is skills oriented (no theory unless you need it for the job), inexpensive, and short enough to give you a certificate of completion within a few months. Anything longer is unlikely to make much difference in getting hired.
But if you have set career goals that will require longer training—such as completion of a bachelor’s or graduate degree—go for it. The long journey begins with that first step. In the meantime, explore job opportunities at lower levels in the same field. If your ambition is to be a registered nurse, apply for an entry-level job in a hospital or clinic. By the time you’ve completed your course of study, you’ll also have several years of related experience and will be all the more valuable in your target job.
Employers say they want people with potential. But reality doesn’t yield to rhetoric. They want skills. Usually yesterday.
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