Use Your Resume to Position You with In-Demand Skills

Increasingly, employers are demanding experience from all job-seekers, including those “entry-level” positions that college grads fill. Why the trend? Because these so-called entry-level jobs are no longer training positions; employers want employees who can make an impact from day one. What can you do about it? Position yourself as having the key skills that employers seek in job candidates. Identify those key skills you gained from your educational experience as well as from those odd jobs while in college. And don’t put down those odd jobs; while they may not have been in your field, you still gained valuable business skills and experience while working them. Read about these transferable skills - and how college grads especially can take advantage of them - in our growing section on transferable skills at Quintessential Careers. Once you’ve identified those transferable skill sets that you have mastered, you can then go about developing a new resume.