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What You Can Do to Make Yourself More Employable


It can often be difficult to figure out how to move forward in regard to your career. Sometimes what employers seem to be looking for can feel unrealistic, like things that you would never be able to achieve. It’s natural for these kinds of things to feel daunting, but there are things that you can do.

When you find yourself applying for jobs and getting very little back in the way of responses, it’s very easy to become disheartened and start thinking that this whole attempt will amount to nothing. It’s important to maintain a positive attitude, persistence is key after all and you might find that applying to jobs becomes more of a numbers game. Sometimes, the problem is that others are simply more qualified, but there are things that you can do to make yourself a more appealing candidate.

Get Some Further Qualifications

This might be the most obvious answer, and maybe the answer that you didn’t want to hear. However, becoming more qualified in specialist areas can go a long way in helping you becoming more employable. Overcoming this hurdle and getting training under your belt might put you in a much more advantageous position going forward. Even if it allows you to simply get one job, that one extra job is more information on your resume that could then help you further in the future. It’s a snowball effect - you just have to get it started.

The question then becomes, which qualifications should you be seeking out? Well, that very much depends on the kind of field that you want to find yourself a career in, obviously the more relevant the qualification, the better. However, it might be that you aren’t quite sure of this and that’s okay too, there’s no shame in being unsure about what you want to do. In this case, you might prefer to see which qualifications are currently most popular for employers. Due to the prevalence and advancement of digital, cloud technology, you might consider making the decision to learn Google Cloud, something that might help you discover a whole new path forward.

Re-Do Your Resume

While job applications might come with other tasks such as a cover letter or personal statement, your resume is what you’re going to be using to market yourself to all of the employers that you contact. Therefore, you want it to be a perfect representation of you and what you can bring to whichever position you’re applying for.

There will be several helpful guides online to help you re-work your resume in this way if you want to look for those, but if you find that your resume is old and hardly relevant to you anymore, you might be more interested in reworking your resume from scratch. If this is the case, there are many ways in which you can find templates which can get you started. There are even services that can help you to determine what employers like to see, which information is relevant and which to get rid of.





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