What do Employers really want?
- Certain generic skills like communication and teamwork you should avoid focusing on your CV.
- Focus on skills your employer wants to see such as technical skills or commercial awareness
- Evidence your skills with case studies on your CV
- Use the STAR method - situation, task, action, result
- Each case study should contain roughly five actions
- If possibly include actual result or grade attained in result
- By writing a career autobiography you can identify skills and achievements attained
- A career autobiography also helps you to assess possible performance gaps- e.g. missing skills required for a job.
- Creating a career autobiography helped me understand what skills I do have and what skills I need to acquire.
- The skills I have acquired from my degree outweigh the skills and experience I don't have.
- You can gain experience to plug the gaps in a number of ways including through work experience, volunteering and being proactive.
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