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Using a gap analysis to fill holes in your resume

Using a gap analysis to fill holes in your resume

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Using a gap analysis to fill holes in your resume

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Jeff Layton: The gap analysis, for those of you who don't know what that is, we actually covered in the Managing Your Career course, and actually, the gap analysis is something that you did with me when I was making a transition in my career. I was coming from being a full-time public school teacher into moving into educational production. Do you want to talk a little about what a gap analysis is? Valerie Sutton: Sure, so it's looking at a future job, your ideal job, and saying what are the requirements of that job? And you break it down into three different area, so the skills that are used, like analytical ability, the knowledge--for instance in an education case, it might be Pre-K and some type of specialty--and then the qualifications like a degree. And you compare this to what you actually have and look at what's missing and then how you can actually obtain that skill, knowledge, or qualification to help you move to that career. Jeff: Right, the gaps are actually places that are…

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