Be all that you can be

Employers more often than not look for skills as well as education.

If you have been taking psychometric tests or any other recognised character development tests or courses, use what you have learned, any qualifications you have earned and any work experience that you have to produce a personal profile.

Your profile should provide evidence that you posses competencies that your potential employers are looking for. They will want some sort of evidence that you posses skills and experience for a wide range of jobs.

You should make a list of the skill and competencies that you already have. Here are some ideas of the sorts of things you might include if you think they are relevant to you:

• can you plan time effectively?
• are you good at working under pressure and to deadlines?
• how are your reading, analysing and synthesising skills for large amounts of text?
• can you work independently?
• are you adaptive to new circumstances?
• are you good at problem solving? (can you give examples?)
• are you capable of thinking originally and imaginatively? Like how?
• do you take the initiative?
• are you articulate and can you express your ideas clearly both in writing and orally?
• do you have experience presenting information in many ways, such as through seminars, under timed examinations, projects or presentations, group discussions, lab or technical reports?

All of these are potentially relevant to your potential employers. All of that said, be sure to tailor make what you are writing to suit to job you are applying for. Be honest of course, but you need not dwell too liong in your personal statement about your skills as a brick layer if you are applying for a new job as a computer programmer, say.

Both careers centres at universities and even government advice centres can help you write an appropriate CV.

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