How to Sell Yourself With Management Skills
Many people with a degree in business or management experience are seeking managerial jobs, so you must sell yourself as a strong manager. Above all, you must recognize the different kinds of managers -- top managers, middle-level managers, line managers and team leaders -- that employers are recruiting. Your resume should sell your qualifications for at least one of these positions.
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Instructions
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Assess Your Skills
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List your personal skills on paper. You don't need to list only management skills in this first self assessment. Think of all skills that might be important to an employer.
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Cross out the skills that are not essential to the type of management job for which you're creating a resume.
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Decide how to best feature specific management skills that remain on your list. List them in a separate skills section on the resume or include these skills in the functional resume under appropriate job descriptions.
Sell Yourself as a Team Leader
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Highlight the ways you can lead a team. This approach means staking your claim as a team leader and preparing to describe your past achievements. This key decision reflects the business and government trend toward self-governing teams.
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Focus on team facilitation aspects of your previous management jobs. In each job description on your resume, describe how you helped people set goals, plan work, design accountability systems and complete projects or tasks on time.
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Provide numeric or descriptive examples of the results that your team or department has achieved in past jobs.
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Describe trainings or other professional learning experiences that have shaped your management style. For example, if you've been trained in business process management, project management or lean manufacturing (such as Six Sigma), highlight it under the education section of the resume.
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Write a list of examples of how you have motivated employees and solved problems in the manager's role. This list will help you prepare for an interview. You will need to interview effectively and show a potential employer all of those great manager qualities you listed on the resume.
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Tips & Warnings
Include professional designations under the qualifications section of the resume or next to your name.
Show a range of experience, because managers move between different economic sectors --- public, private and nonprofit.
Don't present yourself as a team leader if you have only worked in a vertical hierarchy. For example, you might discuss team-building activities in a military or manufacturing management job without portraying that job as a team leader position.
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