These
candidates often have a hard time explaining their transferable skills or finding evidence that they
have the skills required for some particular job.
And in reality this is something that's really easy to do.
Most candidates are kind of like icebergs.
They only show or think that they have a certain very small percentage of skills.
And in reality they have so many more skills than even they know.
And so the way that you do this is through the concept of framing and all framing is is thinking about
your own professional academic and volunteer history and then learning how to select the right experiences
that you can then extract and then surround with the right language so that your target audience recruiters
at H.R. managers understand that you have skills that are relevant for their organization.
The thing is H.R. managers aren't going to be looking at your resume as like an investigative journalist
would like looking into your past what they're looking for is evidence that you have the skills that
their organization needs to get where it's going.
It's well-known in the business community that the best way to get them organization from point A to
Point B is by putting the right people on the bus and that's all about hiring well and managing your
town.
So let's take Sarah for example.
Sarah wants to make a transition from the hotel industry into the nonprofit industry and she knows that
she needs to be able to show that she has skills in fundraising answer teaching content management.
So what she's going to do is just reflect on her professional academic and volunteer history and she's
going to think.
When have I ever done anything like fundraising in my history.
And then maybe she thinks Oh here's one experience and here's another experience.
And then she extracts those out and saves those then she's going to think when have I ever done any
strategic event management or managed big groups or managed parties.
And she thinks well I worked at hotels and I used to handle conventions all the time.
So she extracts those experiences and saves those then she's just going to surround those experiences
with the right words.
So then what she's going to do is take these experiences excuse collected and start developing the language
for them so that she can put them on her resume in a way that makes sense for the person on the other
side who's reading her resume.
And that's how you use framing to explain your transferable skills.
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