Owning Your Skills

A Quick Guidebook of Tips and Stories for Using Your Transferable Skills to Earn the Job You Want!

Are you ready to switch jobs but don’t know where to start? Or do you feel like you don’t have the right skills to make a career change? Then this guidebook is meant for you.

We tend to come up with many excuses to remain where we are when, deep down, we would love nothing more than a fresh start in a career that doesn’t have us groaning in despair while preparing for the next shift. This book is filled with tips and stories to help guide you through many of the job search, application, and interview hurdles.

What’s included in this quick guidebook:

• Activities for identifying your transferable skills
• Guidance on how to recognize stepping-stone opportunities
• Ways to calculate how much your skills are worth
• Simple tricks to improving your job search
• Information on how the applicant tracking system (ATS) works
• Suggestions for optimizing your resume and cover letter
• Tips to help you mentally prepare for sharing your skills with the interviewer

This book provides a guideline throughout the job search process and explains ways to break through the massive wave of career changers during these questionable times.

The competition is high, but this book is here to provide you with a fighting chance to get noticed by the hiring manager or a recruiter. Let’s prepare you to use your skills to get you the job you want!

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