Job Skills are Critical — What are Yours?

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The first issue that needs to resolve in a job interview is the job skills you have matched to the position. Your job skills are fundamental to success in the new position, so you need to position yourself as competent to do the work. Yet, many people don’t know their job skills or are poor at relating the skills they have to the interview.

Let’s take a look at the seven areas of job skills you need to define and know to make sure you can prove your competence to the hiring manager.

I like to look at job skills as categories. Categories of job skills are easier to remember in the middle of an interview. Some studies have shown there are over 300 transferable job skills from job to job, but I don’t want to remember (and can’t!) 300 job skills.

Thus, I put job skills into categories. Here are my seven:

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