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1. United States of
America's primary source
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www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
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3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
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.com
6. Self Improvement:
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Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
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www.score.org/business_tool
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9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
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Transferable Skills - Three Easy Steps to Changing
Fields
Recruiters and Human Resources professionals understand that
employees make successful leaps from one profession to another
everyday. Your job is to make it easy for them to see how your outstanding
past accomplishments (not skills) translate to a smooth transition into a
new field.
Step #1. Create a Unique Resume and Cover Letter for Every Position. If
you are seeking a new position, the first things you need to know is that you
must tailor write your resume for every position you are seeking. For
instance, if you were in software development for one company and are
transitioning into business development for another, be sure to list how you
prospected clients’ needs in order to develop a valuable solution. You will
also need to tailor write your cover letter to demonstrate that you understand
the mission of the organization, what specific attributes you bring to that
mission in terms of your greatest measurable accomplishments (which you
will define below) and the reason for a personal dedication to the business.
Show don’t tell. You don’t tell them you will be one of their strongest
candidates. You demonstrate the fact that you increased sales by 23% in
your last position and generated a 10% increase in new clients. Allow them
to draw their own editorial conclusion. Show don’t tell.
Step 2. Define Your Transferable Skills and Key Accomplishments. If you
are attempting to change your area of expertise, you want to identify your
transferable skills that can be applied to any profession. These skills fall
into three categories: Your ability to communicate, organize information, and
operate/fix equipment. You may be good at instructing others and writing.
You may be good at organizing data and keeping records. You may be good
at fixing things and making things work. Demonstrate in your resume your
accomplishments in these three areas. Employers know these to be the
transferable skill categories.
How to Determine Your Transferable Skills and Key Accomplishments:
Create four columns on a piece of paper.
Column #1) “Skills from Last Job or Volunteer Work.”
Column #2) “Transferable Skill - Yes? or No?” (Based on the above criteria)
Column #3) “How Can This Skill Be Used in the Desired Position?”
Column #4) “Related Key Accomplishment.”
Execute this exercise for each of the positions you have held and adapt it for
each position you seek. At the end of this process you will have a deeper
understanding and confidence in how your past experience most certainly
prepares you to be a lead candidate for your new pursuit.
Step 3. Apply Your “Key Accomplishments” to Each Work Section of Your
Resume. Include a “Key Accomplishments” segment for each position you
have held, showing your transferable skills as they relate to the desired
position. Doing so will help employers quantify the pace of your
professional growth.
“Key Accomplishments” are measurable ways in which you met obstacles
and solved problems. What were some of the challenges you faced? What
actions did you take to overcome the problems? What were the measurable
results of your work? You didn’t do two jobs when someone was laid off in
your department. You produced twice the number of reports after the
company downsized.
Think of your Key Accomplishments in the framework of transferable skills
that can be applied to any career. You may be good at instructing others or
writing. You may be good at organizing data and keeping records. You may
be good at fixing things and making things work.
Remember that responsibilities are not achievements. You may have been
responsible for book keeping, entering data or running an event. But your
achievements are that you created new strategies that enabled the
organization to save $10,000 in expenses, created a database that allowed
the company to process customer information twice as fast, or created an
event that raised $47,500.
Again, the most important thing to remember is that employers are looking
for people to help them solve problems not complete tasks. Continue to
communicate in the interview, on your resume and in the thank you letter
how you can and have helped to solve problems for others. Your goal is to
solve a company’s “pain” and eliminate any risk in hiring you.
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals - What They Did for Me” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
Fields
Recruiters and Human Resources professionals understand that
employees make successful leaps from one profession to another
everyday. Your job is to make it easy for them to see how your outstanding
past accomplishments (not skills) translate to a smooth transition into a
new field.
Step #1. Create a Unique Resume and Cover Letter for Every Position. If
you are seeking a new position, the first things you need to know is that you
must tailor write your resume for every position you are seeking. For
instance, if you were in software development for one company and are
transitioning into business development for another, be sure to list how you
prospected clients’ needs in order to develop a valuable solution. You will
also need to tailor write your cover letter to demonstrate that you understand
the mission of the organization, what specific attributes you bring to that
mission in terms of your greatest measurable accomplishments (which you
will define below) and the reason for a personal dedication to the business.
Show don’t tell. You don’t tell them you will be one of their strongest
candidates. You demonstrate the fact that you increased sales by 23% in
your last position and generated a 10% increase in new clients. Allow them
to draw their own editorial conclusion. Show don’t tell.
Step 2. Define Your Transferable Skills and Key Accomplishments. If you
are attempting to change your area of expertise, you want to identify your
transferable skills that can be applied to any profession. These skills fall
into three categories: Your ability to communicate, organize information, and
operate/fix equipment. You may be good at instructing others and writing.
You may be good at organizing data and keeping records. You may be good
at fixing things and making things work. Demonstrate in your resume your
accomplishments in these three areas. Employers know these to be the
transferable skill categories.
How to Determine Your Transferable Skills and Key Accomplishments:
Create four columns on a piece of paper.
Column #1) “Skills from Last Job or Volunteer Work.”
Column #2) “Transferable Skill - Yes? or No?” (Based on the above criteria)
Column #3) “How Can This Skill Be Used in the Desired Position?”
Column #4) “Related Key Accomplishment.”
Execute this exercise for each of the positions you have held and adapt it for
each position you seek. At the end of this process you will have a deeper
understanding and confidence in how your past experience most certainly
prepares you to be a lead candidate for your new pursuit.
Step 3. Apply Your “Key Accomplishments” to Each Work Section of Your
Resume. Include a “Key Accomplishments” segment for each position you
have held, showing your transferable skills as they relate to the desired
position. Doing so will help employers quantify the pace of your
professional growth.
“Key Accomplishments” are measurable ways in which you met obstacles
and solved problems. What were some of the challenges you faced? What
actions did you take to overcome the problems? What were the measurable
results of your work? You didn’t do two jobs when someone was laid off in
your department. You produced twice the number of reports after the
company downsized.
Think of your Key Accomplishments in the framework of transferable skills
that can be applied to any career. You may be good at instructing others or
writing. You may be good at organizing data and keeping records. You may
be good at fixing things and making things work.
Remember that responsibilities are not achievements. You may have been
responsible for book keeping, entering data or running an event. But your
achievements are that you created new strategies that enabled the
organization to save $10,000 in expenses, created a database that allowed
the company to process customer information twice as fast, or created an
event that raised $47,500.
Again, the most important thing to remember is that employers are looking
for people to help them solve problems not complete tasks. Continue to
communicate in the interview, on your resume and in the thank you letter
how you can and have helped to solve problems for others. Your goal is to
solve a company’s “pain” and eliminate any risk in hiring you.
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance" by clicking here.
Follow Mary Lee's career tips on Twitter.com at StartingOverNow.
For the FREE Worksheets: “It’s Not Who You Know It’s Who knows You” and
“Goals - What They Did for Me” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon is a career advice expert who went from being a stay-at-
home mother with four children to divorce, poverty and then on to become a
newspaper reporter, trade association executive director, public relations
consultant, and foundation president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career
tips, worksheets and Blog on her website at www.startingovernow.com.
Contact Mary Lee at info@startingovernow.com.
StartingOverNow.com
Articles
| Mary Lee Gannon is interviewed on Mind Your BIZness |
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Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
e-book "Make Your
Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
clicking here. Mary Lee
Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over."
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FREE resources on
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* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
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Book "Starting Over"
will be released in
November of 2009.
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November of 2009.
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