How To Market your skills and experience
Market yourself
10 best ways to market your skills and experience
When you’re looking for a job, even if your own natural inclination is to be modest, there’s no place for it in the jobs market.
Your ability to stand out from the crowd means getting your skills, experience and knowledge in front of the companies that you want to work for.
Getting that all important job isn’t just down to your skills and experience, you have to be able to market yourself and not every one finds this easy. Thinking objectively about yourself and what you are good at is sometimes difficult. You also need to know who you would want to work for and what medium you would use to reach them.
Talentmax shows you the 10 best ways to market yourself, starting with;
Have a strong and effective cv
Think of your cv or resume as your business calling card – impress prospective employers and recruiters with it and it will increase your chances of landing the job. Keep these tips in mind when drafting it:
- Know yourself including your skills, experience, and achievements.
- Know your audience and medium and then write it accordingly.
- Use positive words with greater impact.
Be specific about your achievements; use bullet forms. If possible, let a professional resume writer edit it so as to get the best results for specific companies. – See our top tips for cv writing here
Use the internet for networking
The Internet provides plenty of opportunities for fast, convenient, and effective networking, thanks to the social media and professional networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. Your ability to maintain an active and positive online presence will work to your benefit as an increasing number of employers use online profiles as part of their hiring process. Follow our best practice to set your online brand presence apart from the rest, see our top tips for improving online brand presence here
Establish recruiter links
Reliable recruiters have recruitment professionals with the skills, knowledge, and networks necessary to match the person with the jobs. Talk to our recruitment consultants about matching your present skills and qualifications set with the available jobs in your preferred industry.
Be on job Site
You can maximise the efficiency of your cv by getting on job boards which recruiters access daily for their activities. Just be sure to keep your cv relevant, accurate and updated.
Target the best companies
Use your time wisely and target companies you’d like to work for. Assess your qualifications, make a list of the companies that are most aligned with what you want out of your career, your values and skillset and submit your applications. Targeted job searches increase the probability of landing the best job for your present requirements and future goals.
Get your elevator pitch ready
What can you offer? Where do you see yourself in five years? Why this company? These are just a few of the apparently simple yet loaded questions that you must have the answer to keep yourself in the game. Your elevator pitch should be succinct, precise and positive. Don’t get caught off guard.
Widen your network the traditional way
While digital channels are great value for networking, consider using traditional networking methods to your advantage, too.
- Find – or better yet, create – professional and personal networking groups with individuals and organizations with mutual goals in employment and business.
- Use social occasions for a networking opportunity.
- Offer to give talks in business meetings, teach a course at the local college, and write articles for the local newspaper.
Your goal: Demonstrate your multifaceted skills, competencies and capabilities to potential employers while also addressing your personal and professional development needs.
Form strategic partnerships
Look around and find individuals and organizations that you can establish strategic partnerships with. It’s about, going above and beyond the usual networking methods.
Luck has little to do with it
Planning is the key to success in job searches – or to use a popular phrase, when you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Be prepared for the job interviews, for the job itself, and for the career advancement opportunities because luck has little to do with success in the workplace.
Work on your development
Think of yourself as a product – the more attractive you are to your target market, the more saleable you will be. You should, therefore, work on your personal and professional development even when looking for a job – it’s the only way to go up in the world.
At Talentmax our consultants work on a personal and consultative basis with our candidates. Get in touch with our team to find out how we can assist you with your job search.