How To Get A Job You Love

chapter 6

Clarify your skills

‘When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.’

Charles Reade (1870)

This chapter helps you to

• •understand how it’s useful to consider skills separately from personality;
• •map your hidden skills;
• •communicate your motivated skills;
• •understand what makes skills transferable;
• •express skills and achievements as mini-narratives.

Skills – getting below the surface

Asking ‘what’s a skill?’ might seem an unnecessary question until you look at those many CVs which start ‘highly accomplished’, ‘motivated’, ‘enthusiastic’. These words describe aspects of personality and say nothing about skills. ‘I am creative’ ...