Welcome to Job Interview Guide
Accounting Job Interview Questions Article
. For a permanent link to this article, or to bookmark it for further reading, click here.
Matching Your Skills to Find Appropriate Jobs
from: Deb St. George, Publisher, Character-References.comSkills refer to the things you do well. The key to finding the most appropriate jobs in the industry is recognizing your own skills and communicating the significance written and verbally to a probable employer.
Majority of the most viable skills are those that are used in a variety of work settings. What are these skills? Would matching your skills to find the right job be successful?
* Determine your skills. This would help you in becoming the lead candidate of landing the job. A skill does not necessarily mean it was adapted in a work environment. If this would be your first job hunt and you have no job experience to date, you still have a chance in the industry.
Majority of skills, including knowledge-based and transferable, could be absorbed and developed as a volunteer, a student, a homemaker, or in your other personal activities. The skills you have used for these activities can still be applied to your desired jobs.
Organizing and listing your personal skills could help you easily fill out job applications, provide useful information for job interviews, and prepare quality resumes.
First, you should categorize the skills by separating your interests and aptitudes from your work experience.
1) Aptitudes and interest. These include all of your hobbies, activities you have been involved in the past, and all the things that interest you. By listing all of these down, you could examine the skills it takes to achieve each item.
Skills from aptitude and interest may be homemaking, playing basketball, fixing cars and many more. All of these items could determine if you are capable of working with a team, able to handle multiple tasks, have viable knowledge of human development, knowledge of electronics and ability to diagnose mechanical and numerical problems. The list goes on, but make sure to consider the skills that would be beneficial for a working environment.
2) Work history. This includes volunteer, part-time, freelance, summer and full time jobs. Once you have listed all your past employment, examine the skills you do work each work duty.
* Ask for help. As soon as you have your list ready, you could now go to job services that could help you acquire your desired job. You could also search job yourself. However, always remember to match your skills and abilities in your list to the needed skills and abilities of various jobs.
In most cases, people who seek jobs are threatened with job titles. This should not be the case. As long as your skills and abilities could meet the requirements of the workload and job title, your possibility of acquiring your desired job increases.
Accounting Job Interview Questions News
When An Employer Requires Experience And You Have None
It's hard for new grads to find a good job this year, but the very fact that they're new grads makes it even worse. You'll find yourself asking, "How am I supposed to gain experience if I'm constantly ...
Read more...Résumé inflation not going away
Résumé inflation not going away
Read more...10 Questions for LogMeIn CFO Jim Kelliher
Name: Jim Kelliher
Read more...What Do Interviewers Notice First About You?
How to guarantee that the first impression you give is a positive one.
Read more...What Yahoo CEO story says about resume fraud
Melinda Blackman says in hiring, beware of "Groupthink." Vetting a job candidate thoroughly can be time consuming, but it's important
Read more...10 Questions for Credant Technologies CFO David Becker
The firm provides enterprise data protection software and services to control, manage, and protect on numerous platforms locally and in the cloud.
Read more...JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon keeps chairman's job in shareholder vote
But Dimon now faces a Justice Department probe into how the bank lost $2 billion from risky trades. TAMPA, Fla. — After surviving a push to oust him as chairman, embattled JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon now faces a Justice Department probe into how the bank lost $2 billion from risky trades.
Read more...