From the course: Returning to Work with a Resume Gap

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Leverage your skills and experience

Leverage your skills and experience

From the course: Returning to Work with a Resume Gap

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Leverage your skills and experience

- You are much more than the sum of your skills and experience. But let's face it, these are the first things a recruiter or hiring manager will look for and the first box you'll need to check to catch their eye. - You probably have a good handle on your professional skills and experience. You know your degrees, your professional certifications, your work and prior jobs, and the skills you perfected in those jobs, but that is just part of it. What you've done during your career break has value too. - And we're going to help you see it and claim it. We've broken this exercise into two parts, with two unique Exercise Files. In the first, you'll inventory your professional skills and experience using these guiding questions. What was your role? Where did you do it? What specific skills and experiences did you gain? What measurable results did you achieve? And how can your skills and experience benefit an organization and its…

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