Understand Your Value As A Potential Candidate

Understanding your own unique selling points and skills is the part of the process of understanding your value as a potential candidate. The job market is competitive and in order to compete you need to identity your selling points and learn how to market them. Identifying your selling points is about understanding the roles you have filled in the past, your career progression, your progressive responsibility, your qualifications and the transferable skills you have picked up along the way.

The more you know about yourself the more you will be able to promote your attributes. This is essential in your resume and other job correspondence. Spend some time going over the things that make up your career profile before you begin writing. It might be helpful to have a mentor to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. Your mentor can go through the information with you and help you to portray it in a way that will get you noticed.

The main areas you need to focus on in terms of understanding value include:

• Past roles - In every job and every role you have filled you will have developed valuable experience and skills. When you think about the jobs you have had in the past and the tasks you have performed you will have a basic understanding of your professional experience.
• Career progression - You may have started out with a paper run or as a sales assistant but over the course of your career you have progressed through a number of jobs. All of these jobs have qualified you for future opportunities. Think about the different office cultures you have experienced. Think about the time you've spent working with different people and on different projects. All this is invaluable to your professional profile. No matter what kind of jobs you have done in the past they have all contributed to teaching you about the working environment.
• Progressive responsibility - This is something that employers look for when selecting candidates. If you have gone from a sales assistant to a manager or been given more responsibility then this is valuable experience. Demonstrate your progression when applying for new jobs. This kind of progression shows that you are the kind of person that takes on new responsibility and intends to move forward in your career.
• Qualifications - What kind of qualifications do you have? Do you have a university degree, diploma or certificate? What about courses you may have done in past employment? Even if it is just training you completed in other jobs or your high school education. Your qualifications do not reflect what you are capable of, they merely reflect what you have achieved education wise.
• Transferable skills - If you are moving into a new role it is good to show how past roles have provided you with relevant experience. In your cover letter and resume highlight these transferable skills. Transferable skills are you attributes that would be valuable to any position. These are things such as professionalism, commitment, communications skills, reliability and attention to detail, working as part of a team, innovation and many more.

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