Truly Understand Your Personal Skill Set
Generalized job descriptions are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
No one job description best describes any person's abilities and skills.
To pigeonhole yourself into a vast description of duties inherently promotes inefficiency.
If you specialize in everything, then how are you a specialist? Everyone has a unique set of abilities that they are naturally inclined to.
It is those abilities that you need to focus on to be productive.
If you truly understand your personal skill set, you can strategically position yourself to achieve what you want.
Generalized job descriptions leave employees to a certain set of skills which no one person can possibly be exorbitantly good at.
In reality, the employee will excel at a handful of those duties, and sort of skate by with the rest.
Think about it in terms of your previous job.
When you had to do the one or two duties that were part of your job that you were not particularly good at, how did you react? Did you procrastinate? Did you stare at a computer screen for 8 hours and not accomplish anything? How does this benefit you or your company? Your company just paid you to be completely non-productive, and you've wasted 8 hours of your life doing absolutely nothing (or thinking about how much you hate this one part of your job).
The new trend we're seeing is that companies who have done their research are now offering PERSONALIZED job descriptions.
In other words, there is not a Customer Service Representative job description, but there is a "Donald Tee Carson" job description that is tailor-made to fit the skills that I excel at.
This is why it's so important to truly understand your personal skill set.
If you take the time to analyze what you are truly good at, and what you really don't care for, you will have the ability to position yourself to tell a potential employer that you would like to specifically do this type of job.
If you find that your skill set flourishes when you work from home, rather than in a distracting office, you can advise your interviewer that you need a work-from-home environment to be truly productive.
If you continually ask for these scenarios, you will soon have a track record that proves your point.
Resumes should no longer be a laundry list of tasks you've accomplished.
They should represent your true talents and skills.
If you target your true talents and skills, these things that you are naturally inclined to do, then it stands to reason that you will generally be successful and maintain a lifestyle that satisfies you.
Take time out to analyze yourself.
Figure out your personal skill set, and make your career revolve around it, not vice versa.
No one job description best describes any person's abilities and skills.
To pigeonhole yourself into a vast description of duties inherently promotes inefficiency.
If you specialize in everything, then how are you a specialist? Everyone has a unique set of abilities that they are naturally inclined to.
It is those abilities that you need to focus on to be productive.
If you truly understand your personal skill set, you can strategically position yourself to achieve what you want.
Generalized job descriptions leave employees to a certain set of skills which no one person can possibly be exorbitantly good at.
In reality, the employee will excel at a handful of those duties, and sort of skate by with the rest.
Think about it in terms of your previous job.
When you had to do the one or two duties that were part of your job that you were not particularly good at, how did you react? Did you procrastinate? Did you stare at a computer screen for 8 hours and not accomplish anything? How does this benefit you or your company? Your company just paid you to be completely non-productive, and you've wasted 8 hours of your life doing absolutely nothing (or thinking about how much you hate this one part of your job).
The new trend we're seeing is that companies who have done their research are now offering PERSONALIZED job descriptions.
In other words, there is not a Customer Service Representative job description, but there is a "Donald Tee Carson" job description that is tailor-made to fit the skills that I excel at.
This is why it's so important to truly understand your personal skill set.
If you take the time to analyze what you are truly good at, and what you really don't care for, you will have the ability to position yourself to tell a potential employer that you would like to specifically do this type of job.
If you find that your skill set flourishes when you work from home, rather than in a distracting office, you can advise your interviewer that you need a work-from-home environment to be truly productive.
If you continually ask for these scenarios, you will soon have a track record that proves your point.
Resumes should no longer be a laundry list of tasks you've accomplished.
They should represent your true talents and skills.
If you target your true talents and skills, these things that you are naturally inclined to do, then it stands to reason that you will generally be successful and maintain a lifestyle that satisfies you.
Take time out to analyze yourself.
Figure out your personal skill set, and make your career revolve around it, not vice versa.
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