On Your Resume, Show, Don't Tell
Working on that resume? HR pro Liz Ryan says forget about “transferable skills.”
“There is one big problem with the Transferable Skills dogma. People are not actually ambulatory sets of disembodied, abstract skills. Describing ourselves as packages of skills is about the worst way imaginable to get a hiring manager excited about us….We might say:Neil Armstrong is a savvy aeronautical professional with flying skills, landing skills, navigational skills, leadership skills and moon-rock-collecting skills. How absurd! Neil Armstrong is the guy who first walked on the surface of the moon.”
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