Find out what you know how to do well. How to make a resume to work correctly? Personal example what you can

If we were sitting on a cup of coffee, and I would ask you what skills you possess most likely, you would tell me the following:

I do not know what I can do.
I do not have (little) skills.

If you gave the first answer, then, probably, because they infrequently asked themselves this question.

If the second, then this is because you are a person. People are hard to realize their own skills. Usually you consider them for something of granted and do not allocate as abilities.

Richard Branson. Photo: Reuters / Olivia Harris

So, continue to sit for an imaginary cup of coffee: first of all I will try to help you understand what skills you already have. Our goal is to make a list of your current skills to understand what you can do that there is no and what I would like to improve.

To do this, you need to be completing two steps:

Write all the ideas.
Stru's them.

Step 1: Write All Ideas

Your recordings should not be perfect. Mainly make them.

Here is the first thing there is a quantity. On one card should be recorded one of your skill, cards can be as much as your abilities you remember. No need to edit anything. Now for us the main amount. To start writing, answer the following questions:

What are you coping with?

Drop modesty, there is no time for it. What are you good and, let's even say, are gorgeous? Maybe you know how to make excellent marketing suggestions? Maybe you, like no other, are able to balancing the budget? And I'm not talking about your current work now. Return to the past. If you have once perfectly spread the newspapers, and write down: "Timely delivery".

What is given to you by yourself?

You may seem that some things can do everyone, but in fact it is not. If you easily spend gorgeous corporate lunches, it means that you know how to plan events and unite people. If something is easily given to you, does not mean that it is impossible to be called the ability. Are you known for going on a business trip, can you easily fit into a small manual stuffing stock of clothes for ten days? Or, maybe you managed to arrange a real woodworking workshop in your garage, but did you always think that this is a stupid hobby?

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Step 2: Structure Your Skills

After you write down a few skills, you will start to notice something - some ideas are related to each other.

Groupe them as you like. For example, "What I love to do the most", "Skills for which I get paid more," "Skills that I want to improve", "the abilities that I have not used for a long time."

Place the cards with entries in such places so that you can repeatedly see them during the day. Always keep a few cards in different places at home and part in your pocket.

Yes, it may seem strange, but only an idiot will condemn you for writing their ideas and try to become smarter. (Records can be stored in the phone, but remember that the handwritten record of the idea has some kind of special strength).

Mark Zuckerberg in India

Structuring will help you better understand what kind of skills you possess. If you recorded, for example, ten abilities and nine of them fall under the category "Skills that I do not use on the current work", then it needs to be corrected.

Try to use your abilities more often, teach skills that you need in your current business or find a new job.

If in the end you got two cards with a common category "I have no skills, I hate the author of this article," then it's time to call someone from your friends. Drink coffee with him and ask right: "What do you think, what skills do I have?"

Bill Gates. Photo: YouTube.

The main goal of the exercise is to cause two different feelings: hope and awareness.

With the first simple. At the beginning of such a way, you can always easily fall in spirit and think that you have very few professional skills.

The second is awareness - it needs you to understand what abilities you would like to purchase. It does not matter whether you want to improve the indicators on the current work or find a new one - in any case, you will probably need new skills.

When you have visual cards with your current skills, it's easier for you to understand what abilities you lack. So you can quickly determine which new skills will be needed to get a new job or get out of the habitual track.

There are three things to make which it is unusually difficult: to break the steel, look at the diamond and know yourself.
Benjamin Franklin, politician, scientist and inventor

Ask you these 20 questions

Unfortunately, there is no single path to self-awareness. Each person is unique. And the only one who can help you know yourself - you yourself.

Some say that for this you just need to live, and wisdom will come by itself. And what if it takes 60 years? You can wait, but then you will have behind your shoulders.

To speed up this process, first honestly answer the following questions. You can do it in any order. Do not think about the answer for too long. That will be the one that first will appear in thoughts.

What can I do well?
What gives me quite well?
What am I doing bad?
What am I tired from?
What is the most important thing for me in life?
Who is the most important people in my life?
How many hours of sleep I need per day?
What makes me nervous?
What calms me?
What is success in my understanding of this word?
What type of workers do I treat?
How do I want to look in the eyes of others?
What makes me sad?
What makes me happy?
What makes me be angry?
What kind of person do I want to be?
What other do I want to be?
What am I talking about myself?
What do I appreciate in life?
What am I afraid?

Note that everyone interprets these questions in its own way. This means that they do not have faithful or wrong answers.

Analyze the answers

Honest answers to these questions will help you revise and improve your life. Here the process itself is important. Clearly answering questions, you develop your thinking.

Aristotle used the word "Logos" - concepts that contain unbiased logical arguments of the speaker.

Learn to express your feelings and emotions with words. Your responses should be sincere so that you understand your strengths and weaknesses. Do not try to hide something from yourself or put yourself in a favorable light.

Pay attention to what qualities you would like to change, which prevents you in life. Do what you know and what brings you happiness. Avoid what you do bad and what makes you unhappy.

Just do not go to the stick. Remember that in life there are both wonderful moments, and complex situations. If you do not immediately break the relationship. Just aware of the reason for these difficulties, such as selfishness, lies or misunderstanding, and try to eliminate them.

Learn the works of philosophers.
Take a neutral position in conversations. Do not try to be right. Consider the problem from different points of view.
Record your thoughts. Always ask yourself for what reason something happened.
Speak. Communication is very important. Speak with relatives, friends, colleagues. Expressing your feelings, you will know yourself, especially if you ask questions that are forced to think.

This method can be the beginning of your path to self-consciousness.

An important point of the summary for which all employers pay attention is the graph on the main professional skills. Neither education nor work experience will tell about your personal expertise in certain matters. Therefore, it is worth seeing examples of key skills in the summary to competently fill the corresponding partition. This will help show the employer what exactly you can do.

From what to choose

It is difficult to choose some "typical" skills. Indeed, in each profession, their requirements are put forward and the applicant must comply with them. If you do not know what you can write, you can specify the following:

interpersonal skills;
ability to organize work, plan, make decisions;
attention to various nuances and details;
the ability to analyze problems, effectively search for their permission;
the ability to exercise flexibility;
project management skills;
business leadership.

But it is still desirable to pick up skills depending on the claims for candidates. Usually the employer himself indicates that he wants from the future employee. The applicant can simply rephrase its requirements and specify them in key skills.

Leaders' skills

First of all, it is important to understand what key skills for a resume are important for those who claim the position of the head. The potential managers always impose increased requirements and their candidates are checked more scrupulously.

As skills, you can specify such skills:

resolve conflict situations;
plan and optimally organize the workflow;
make decisions and for their results to answer independently;
critically think
effectively manage the time and people who are subordinate;
apply motivational programs;
strategically and creatively thinking;
negotiate;
communicative skills, ability to conquer confidence of colleagues, partners and higher management.

It is important to be able to distinguish your skills from personal qualities. The first are purchased in the process of work and training, and the second characterize you as a person.

Also in the list you can add multitasking, the ability to adapt to various conditions, transmit part of the authority and monitor the proper implementation of the tasks.

Professions associated with communication

Separately, it is worth noting which skills should indicate if you apply for the position of seller, manager or consultant. For example, you can specify the following seller-consultant skills in Summary:

skill to manage time;
experience of personal communication and successful sales;
competent oral speech, well-supplied voice, necessary diction;
creative approach to sales;
the ability to listen, give competent advice, find an approach to customers;
the ability to quickly learn and easily perceive major information;
people service skills, ability to show tactful and tolerance.

If you know that the company works with foreign clients, then the indisputable plus will be knowledge of foreign languages. Pretending to vacancing sales manager, also specify if this, of course, is true:

own English, Italian, French or other language;
confident use of PC, knowledge of MS Office programs;
business correspondence skills, including in a foreign language;
the ability to take attention, interest, friendliness.

But for teachers, teachers, leading seminars and trainings are presented by several other requirements. They must have such skills:

motivation for the result of training;
high energy and initiative;
the ability to concentrate the attention of groups of people and hold it a certain time;
accumulated patience and flexibility skills that need to be taken when communicating with trainees;
the ability to plan and competently organize the workflow.

Common for all these professions is the main skill - to establish contact with people.

Other options

Select the necessary skills for technical specialists is no less simple. The main task, for example, for the system administrator is to control the operation of the entire computer network. Therefore, he must have such key skills and skills:

to diagnose professional equipment;
monitor possible risks and plan to restore the functioning of systems in the shortest possible time;
own technical English;
work with large amounts of information.

According to these necessary skills, it is clear that the specifics of work affect the fact that it is necessary to indicate in the summary. Separately, it is worth noting that in some industries, professional skills are so closely intertwined that they are difficult to separate.

If you apply for the position of a specialist in accounting, it is first better to get acquainted with the requirements. Examples of key skills in a resume for an accountant can be taken directly from the description of the requirements for candidates. They have to:

be able to think analytically;
organize work on the fixed area;
analyze problems, be able to search for ways of their permission;
competently plan;
pay enough attention to small nuances and important details;
properly arrange priorities;
be able to work with a large number of documents;
be able to allocate paramount tasks;
have skills to work with regulatory authorities.

Employees of the legal department are put forward by several other requirements. For a lawyer, you can specify:

knowledge of legislation, principles of judicial system;
the ability to draw up documents, contracts;
skills analysis of legal instruments;
the ability to work with a variety of information and quickly absorb it;
computer knowledge, MS Office programs;
communication skills;
the ability to use legal databases represented in electronic form;
multi-vector (ability to work in different directions);
work skills and employees of control bodies;
ability to work with documents;
the ability to organize work and schedule task execution.

In each specialty there must be their own skills, but you can choose something suitable for your future work from all represented listings.

Additional help in finding the right and appropriate characteristics can be such a reflection: imagine yourself with a manager who needs an employee to a position that interests you. What would you expect from a candidate for work?

In Chapter 3, you will compile new lists and remember the past. I think, contacting the past, you, like I, in my time, find the keys to the definition of your life destination.

What they say PEOPLE

The last week has become time for me intensive learning. Thank you for the exercise "What I know is good." At the moment it turned out to be the most difficult. I realized that I often denied my abilities, although other people believed that I could achieve heights in certain areas. Now, when I learn to be in the stream and stay in my center, everything becomes in its place and I finally know what I want to do with my life. How I will implement it - another question, but at least now I have a vision. I know that you must.

B. D. M., Arizona

Exercise "What I know is good" - the most difficult one that I have so far has been. It told me about all the judgments that I loaded myself in my entire life. I started looking for "big" things that I know how well to do, and realized that some of my "small" skills are also important and that they are all connected.

As for the list "What I always wanted," I was interested to watch how I sometimes tried to adjust it. I realized that it comes from my ego, saying: "This is, of course, it is impossible, I do not deserve it." Then I had to adjust my own correction, returning to a simple truth.

"Tests and turning points" again reminded me that it was the tests that was stimulated by my spiritual growth and brought me awareness of truth and enlightenment. These are wonderful gifts! I enal one girl in Nashville, who suffered with all kinds of dependencies, including alcoholic alcohol, as well as Katatonia and spent some time in a psychuclearcera. When I met her, all this was already behind and, speaking about my past, she admitted that she was an unpleasant experience, but nothing bad with her never happened. Since then, years have passed, but I never forgot this manifestation of wisdom. Passing on tests and turning points, I always looked at her. Even the work on this list was for me and the test, and the turning point. Thank you!

J. D., Arizona

As for my experience, he was very helpful. I found in my answers a lot of important, and these. Exercises complemented my other spiritual quest. In addition, the connection of my spiritual searches with your program led to more frequent, more intense, although shorter, enlightenness periods.

M. J., New Jersey

I was simply struck the exercises of this book, and especially the list "What I Condress". They give so much! They really helped me evaluate the abundance and wealth of my inner world. The list of "What I always wanted" also turned out to be very helpful. The essence of my life and my destination are spiritual things. I had a lot of tests. They helped me understand how I was brave and strong. I followed your advice to see in the tests of blessings. And be grateful for everything, believe that there is a higher wisdom in everything (this is also sometimes a test).

, Virginia

Exercise "What I know is good"

There are things that you can do well. What exactly? Are you a good cook? Good driver? Good parent? A good student? Good teacher? Good listener? Good speaker? What do you know how to do well? Write down. This will be the next exercise.

Remember and record everything that you think you are good. You do not have to be a recognized expert in these things. The main thing is your self-esteem.

As a daily practice, write down 20 points daily for the next week: "I know how well ...". Over time, you will leave for 5-10 minutes to create a list, although at first it may be required more time.

Pay attention to your feelings while writing. If something causes you especially strong emotions, mark this item.

Start the list "I know how ..." right here:

Exercise "What I always wanted"

Most of us, if not all, have something that we always wanted to do, but have not yet done. Perhaps this is something you wanted for many years, and maybe you wanted it only yesterday.

Do not limit yourself in anything. Do not think about whether you can afford it. Do not think about how you could implement it. And do not exclude those wishes that you consider "impossible". Just write down. This is another open list. Complete it always when you remember what you always wanted, or when decide what you want something else. Have you ever wanted to make a world tour? Would you like to have your own home? Driving a plane, skiing, dancing tango? Would you like to be a millionaire? Just honestly! Maybe you really would like to receive ten thousand dollars a month, and pretty?

Please do not forget that you do not need to judge your opportunities or resources to implement your desires from this list. Just write what comes to your mind.

This is another list to which you may want to sometimes go back to recall your desires.

Make an open list: "I always wanted ...". Do not worry about how you could carry out or pay your desires. Just write them. Start recording right here:

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