Job Skills - Tips to Strengthen and Showcase Your Skills

Employers hire the right talent by evaluating the qualities and qualifications that matter most to their business. By effectively highlighting the right skills in your job application, you may increase your chances of standing out in the candidate pool. In this virtual workshop, we’ll talk broadly about types of skills, where to learn them and how to communicate them to hiring managers.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
1:45 Hard skills
2:25 Soft skills
3:07 Transferable skills
3:50 Categories of skills
4:26 Identify your strengths
5:14 Align skills to job requirements
5:28 Keywords from the job description
6:17 Career Explorer
7:04 Skills test - Indeed Assessments
9:04 Skill building
9:24 Learn new skills online - MOOCs
10:33 Volunteer to build skills
12:16 Other ways to develop skills
15:58 Communicating your skills
16:48 Communicate skills in your resume
19:05 Assessments and certifications
20:25 Communicate skills in your cover letter
21:37 Communicate skills in your interview
21:49 Demonstrate soft skills
24:19 Elaborate on hard skills
26:02 STAR method for interviewing
28:48 Q&A
29:03 Tips for older applicants
31:37 Tips for entry-level applicants
33:43 Explaining a gap in employment
36:36 More information

Here are the links posted "in the chat" during this webinar for further learning:

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[WandererIam]

Beautiful ladies. And very smart. Thank you, good people.

[feridyke]

Okay as somebody who actually spent a long time taking care of a dying parent, you don't learn a lot of obvious technical skills usually while caring for somebody this way. Maybe some people do but if you didn't, don't feel bad. That said, you did learn things. You learned an entirely new deeper set of soft skills. You probably learned an unspeakable level of patience. You learned task prioritization. You learned about advocating for yourself and others. You probably learned incredible attentiveness. There are some things in there that you can highlight, but if you weren't brushing up on your Microsoft office skills, don't beat yourself up, neither was I. But I did learn what the most important things to me in life were, and that's taken me a lot farther than I ever would have thought.

[csx]

This such a powerful webinar the hit across the bottom all the way to the top. Even if you already have a job, this can also help with advancement with your organization. There are cases where you are pitted against other employees for a position.

[christinaaleprete]

Your fundamental ways of writing your resume is perfect for anyone who has a work history of less than 15 to 20 years. I was forced to resign from my job in 2005. At that time I was still working as a hairdresser. I then had to quit any training that I was in AARP FOUNDATION because I needed surgery. You see where I’m going with this? Okay, what do I do to get the skills I need for any office work? Thank you, Ms.Aleprete

[lyraarnado]

This was so helpful. Thank you very much!

[IanBow]

I was excited to watch this but there are no captions and I'm hearing impaired. The downloadable presentation seems to get enough information across, though, so I hope it can still help me out in my job hunt.

[mltakase]

Thanks you very much, excellent video

[FarshidBehroozianFB]

Would it be possible to link the Indeed assessmant posted onto the next explainatory videos?
Thank you,

[skylink]

Thanks for this beautiful job cast
Pls which online degree awarding institution can you recommend for courses like, Data management, Health information management, Health information Technology/Information Technology
Thanks

[nikhilpatel]

Hi Tara !!

Congratulation & Thanks for such a wonderful video.
The way you presented and the content of the video was really commendable.

[Sumtrip]

Hi Tara, I think you are absolutely brilliant.You said somthing similar to less brown, but about life. " if your life is a hit you made it a hit, and if its a flop, its on you. You are the star of your own moivie.Its your show!