Your Skill - the Crucial Point of Jobhunting

See Correctly Your Job Skills and Find the Great Job

When applying for a job, it is important for you to recognize your strengths but even more important to define your weaknesses.

By knowing the needed educational and/or training level, you yourself can discover for yourself either (a) the fact that you are eligible for a job, or (b) what job skills, skill set, training you may need to become qualified. For you and for all job hunters some basic information may be found on the website http://www.college-student.net/list-of-careers/. The website lists some dozens of occupations with short descriptions (300–400 words) and summarizes the necessary qualifications.

Your skill and qualification is a determining factor when the Human Resources  experts deal with your resume.

1. When you know both your strengths and your weaknesses going into an interview, you increase your chances of getting the job.  
2. When you prepare for an interview you must remember well what you listed in your resume about your learning institutions, skills, field of interest, hobbies. During the interview avoid any statements that may conflict with your own written resume. If you presented a professional resume and are invited to an interview this means, interviewers want to know more, i.e. the details of the facts you included in your resume.  
3. When you express your opinion in an interview be careful. Employers tend to shy away from applicants that come across as knowing everything, especially if they show they know something better than their future boss. So appearing over confident will get you labeled as ineligible, or in the worst situation as intrusive. Over-emphasizing your skill and training may result in an early end to your interview. 
4. An interview is not only a time for you to answer questions but also for you to ask questions. You may take the opportunity to present one of your skills or strengths and ask the interviewer what plans the company has for the position you are applying for. You could also ask about training and education opportunities you will have once on the job. The Human Resource policies of a company will have a large influence on your success in and enjoyment of a new job 

Derek G. Austin is the compiler of a job information package (see General Job Preparation Manual). He deals with jobhunting, human relations, family life in his ezine Home Family and Beyond, a publication series of http://www.pleasantfamilylife.com.