How to List Your Best Work Skills in Resume

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For recent college graduates with limited work experience, it is important to list all your best work skills in the resume. By having these work skills listed in the resume, you will be able to attract the eyes of potential employers.

Instructions

1. Identify your best work skills by listing all the jobs you have had in the past. Everything counts here, from babysitting to administrative assistant.

2. For each job that you had, make a list of your job duties.

3. From each job duty, identify a work skill associated with it. For example, if you had a job as an administrative assistant and one of your duties is filing. You can say that you have good organizational work skills. Another example: if you had a job as a receptionist and one of your duties is to answer phone calls. You can say that you have good communication skills.

4. Write all of your essential job skills on the resume to stand out when the hiring manager is sorting through resumes. However, keep in mind that resume should be kept to one page. So, be concise as well.

5. If you lucky enough to land an interview. Be sure to explain these hidden job skills. For example, the hiring manager might ask, "why do you think you have good communication skills and please be specific."
   You will want to tell him about the receptionist position, how effectively you answered many incoming calls and how much customers / your boss appreciate your skill.