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The importance of marketing your soft skills in the job search
(ARA) – As many Americans continue to search for employment, everyone is looking for ways to make the most of every interview opportunity. Of course, a good resume will reflect your technical training and experience. However, there is more to your overall qualifications than that. Your soft skills are an
important part of the whole package. Two professionals at Brown Mackie College – Boise offer advice to help you make a more comprehensive case as an optimal candidate for the position you seek—a case that includes your soft skills.
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ready to enter today's workforce or preparing them to enhance their current professions. "The workplace remains highly competitive in terms of finding a job," says Schafer. This is evidenced by the current unemployment rate. A U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics press release reports a slight drop in the national unemployment rate, dipping to 8.2 percent in March 2012. While the number of new jobs created was fewer than the job gains in recent months, the sectors showing growth include hospitality, health care and financial services.
Listing your soft skills on a resume is a good way to introduce them to a prospective employer. However, you will need to prove you actually have them by providing examples of how each manifests in your work. No matter what field interests you, it is beneficial to include your soft skills in your pitch. "Before you can market your soft skills, you must know what they are. Soft skills are personality traits; the things that make you who you are," says Schafer. "You seldom learn soft skills in trade school or college. They are life skills that you develop through your experiences."
other soft skills include a strong work ethic, flexibility, time management skills, good communication skills and working well in a team environment. You may already have some of these characteristics listed on your resume without realizing that you are marketing your soft skills. "The main items I look for in interviewee, apart from hard skills, are self confidence, eye contact and a firm handshake," says Penrod. These soft skills, combined with integrity, appropriate dress and good grammar, can be collectively defined as professionalism. "Listening skills matter, too. Is the candidate paying attention to what I'm saying? Is the candidate providing thoughtful responses?" All of these attributes combine to create an element of trust between employer and applicant. Listing your soft skills on a resume is a good way to introduce them to a prospective employer. However, you will need to prove you actually have them by providing examples of how each manifests in your work. "If you say you have good communication skills, you must be able to explain this well in an interview," Schafer says. "Failure to do so will convince the employer that you really don't have good communication skills. This holds true with any skill, hard or soft. Know yourself and address it confidently with the employer." "The initial interest a prospective employer will have in you will be for your hard skills, your ability to perform the technical part of the job. In the end, however, the things that will help you seal the deal on that interview will be your ability to market your soft skills and match them to the position," says Schafer.
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AUBURN — When Tarra Arsenault tells friends she's a student in precision machining technology, they have “no clue what I'm talking about,” she said. She tells them, “I work on a big machine and make metal parts. It's got to be precise.” Arsenault, 19, of Rumford, expects to graduate from Central Maine Community College in 2013 year owing $3,500 in loans and to get a job at a starting salary of $40,000. A skilled machinist can go anywhere in the world and get a good-paying job, officials said May 1, unveiling a new program to lure Maine high school students to that field. The Maine Community College System, the Manufacturers Association of Maine and Great Bay Foundation have joined forces and created a new program, Future for ME, Maine Community College System President John Fitzsimmons said May 1 at a news conference. The program next year will offer $4,500 scholarships to 28 high school graduates. “While some students graduate from college with $200,000 in debt and very little in job prospects, these students will graduate with no debt and probably a $40,000 job,” said Central Maine Community College President Scott Knapp. The Future for ME program will create two full-time community college staffers to work with students. Those staffers will visit high schools to talk to juniors and seniors about what a great career field precision machining is, Knapp said. The high school visits will begin this fall, he said. Candidates will need high skills in reading, writing and math. “You cannot come into this program with consumer math. This is an algebra-based program,” Knapp said. Across Maine, precision machining employs more than 50,000 workers and is a key export business, Fitzsimmons said. “There are over 900 job openings in our state. The industry is facing a daunting challenge of an aging work force.” Offering scholarships to 28 sounds like a small number when considering the 900 job openings, Fitzsimmons acknowledged, adding that the community college system should be enrolling 300 to 400 to catch up. The new program “is the beginning,” he said. “We are very excited about attracting students directly from high school into this program and into the industry.”
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Kyle Forsythe of Harrison, a second-year student at Central Maine Community College in Auburn, operates a computerized numericalcontrol machine in a precision machinery technology class May 1. Precision machining courses are offered at community colleges across Maine, but the Auburn program is one of the largest. That means Future for ME will be mostly centered on the Lewiston-Auburn area. According to Lisa Martin, executive director of the Manufacturers Association of Maine, 40 Maine companies were recently asked how many job openings they had. “Forty companies said over 230 jobs,” Martin said. Those jobs pay between $30,000 and $60,000 a year.
“Companies turn down work because they don't have the work force to fill the orders.” Part of the problem is that the public doesn't know what precision machining is. Martin said the technology is used to make specialized parts for all kinds of things. “If you are flying in an airplane (or
driving a car), you want to be sure the parts in the car or plane are perfect,” Martin said. “You can't say 80 or 90 percent is good enough. It doesn't work that way.” bwashuk@sunjournal.com
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Companies who need skilled machinists include Pratt & Whitney of North Berwick, which makes jet engines and recently announced it's hiring 400 workers. Hussey Seating, also of North Berwick, is adding 70 jobs, Martin said. Other businesses that are hiring include those that manufacture medical devices, bioplastics, metal fabrication, electronics, food products and textiles, Martin said. Workers ages 18 to 24 have the highest unemployment rate, “yet members of our manufacturing association echo the concerns of their counterparts all over the country; they cannot find a skilled work force to fill hundreds of thousands of jobs going unfilled because of the lack of candidates,” Martin said. That's hampering business, she said.
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Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, speaks during a news conference at Central Maine Community College on Tuesday. "Manufacturing is very alive in Maine," Connors said. He and other officials announced a new program, "Future for ME," to enroll more high school graduates in precision machining technology, an industry that offers good-paying jobs and needs skilled workers.
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FREEPORT, MAINE – Women volunteers and Lowe’s Heroes, all representing “The Build Generation” raised their hammers on a Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland construction site May 9 in recognition of National Women Build Week. National Women Build Week, held May 5-13, is a nationwide initiative of Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build program developed in partnership with Lowe’s. This year’s theme, “The Build Generation,” reflects the event’s goal to recruit and train women volunteers, as well as welcome the next generation of Habitat Women Builders – young women, ages 18-24 – to help support Habitat’s mission to create affordable housing. May 10, women volunteers in Freeport worked on the future home of the Tallan family. Lowe’s is providing Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland a $5,000 Lowe’s store gift card, as well as in-store volunteer training to support of this Habitat for Humanity Women Build home. Twenty-five volunteers, half of which were made of up Lowe’s staff members, went to work on two out of three homes on the South St. construction site. One of these homes is designated a Women Build house, meaning that at least 75 percent of the volunteers on this project are women. The completion of the South St. project is slated for mid-to-late June, 2012. The Women Build home will be the 55th home completed by the Greater Portland community since 1985. “It’s so exciting for us to focus on women this week,” explains Steve
Bolton, Executive Director of the Greater Portland affiliate. “Our women volunteers are very passionate about this effort, and they’ve volunteered a lot of hours already, learning the skills necessary to help eliminate poverty housing in Greater Portland. We kicked off National Women Build Week with a 5k race on Saturday, May 5, raising over $20,000 for the Women Build project. The women in this community have proven that they are willing to do what it takes to not only raise the money for this project but also get their hands dirty and help build this home.” E! News correspondent and longtime Habitat supporter Kristina Guerrero, whose mother built her home in partnership with an affordable-housing organization in 1998, is building with her mother, sister and 25 women volunteers, in Los Angeles. “My mom, brothers, sisters and I are living proof of the difference affordable housing can make in a family’s life,” said Guerrero. “I encourage all women to find ways to join Habitat this week. Whether it’s building alongside other volunteers or helping to recruit or train new volunteers, every effort helps families realize their dreams of homeownership. Through working together, we can make a difference in the lives of low-income families in need of affordable housing.” Lowe’s, underwriter of Habitat’s Women Build program, has committed more than $1.3 million to National Women Build Week in
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Bob Miglani writes about dealing with stress and anxiety by learning how to move forward in life on his blog called Embrace the Chaos. He is also the Author of “Treat Your Customers: Thirty Lessons on Service and Sales That I Learned at My Family's Dairy Queen Store”. Bob has over 20 years of experience in small business running the family Dairy Queen and over 19 years of experience in big business as an executive at a Fortune 500 Company. www.bobmigliani.com
Recently I had my 19 year anniversary working for a Fortune 500 company. Nineteen YEARS!!! I can't believe it. When I started, I never expected to stay as long as I have — by luck or by choice. It just turned out that way. And with all the uncertainty at work, chaos in the economy and unpredictability of life, I have no way of truly knowing if I will be at this company for another few years. But I think it might be time for me to do something different.
Did you ever feel like all the paths in front of you are all bad?
or deciding which path to go to next, you are unsure where it will lead you.
So, what do I do? Which train of life, which path should I take?
Speaking to Ben made me feel better. He told me of his experience with this start up business he and his business partner operate. They started a small company a few years ago and recently approached a potential big customer. Being skeptical at their business, this big customer asked them what they've accomplished to date. Slightly unsure, they scrambled to pull together a presentation that reflected their achievements since starting the business.
What I realize is that We have always lived in chaos and have been embracing it all along! It only appears orderly or connected when you look back.
As I think about the possible paths I can take, the uncertainty and unpredictability of the economy and trying to figure out a career stresses me out. I get anxiety just thinking about it. You can't count on anything anymore, much less "plan" a career. With so much career uncertainty, what always helps me think clearly is a conversation with a friend. So I sat with my friend Ben to catchup at a coffee shop outside Grand Central Station in New York City. I told him that I was thinking of a number of career paths. All of which SEEM no better than the one of sitting still. Path 1 has these advantages but it doesn't pay as well and who knows what will happen after the first year. Path 2 seems pretty good but will I really be satisfied? Path 3 is a big risk with a payoff years away...maybe. Path 4 is a radical shift and will require me to make a lot of sacrifices and should I be risking so much during a tough and an unpredictable economy when I have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed?
When they finished the presentation, they were pleasantly surprised because they had actually accomplished a lot...significantly more than they thought. They hadn't realized how much they actually achieved until they looked back and wrote it down. What I learned from speaking with Ben is that you can only connect the dots in your life looking back. That when you take a good hard look back at all the points in your life, all the choices you made, all the paths you took-it all makes perfect sense. And it usually works out! But when you're the midst of all the chaos of life
I met my wife by chance. I live where I live through random coincidence. I met my friends amidst chaos. I work where I work by a stroke of luck. Half way in my career, I was given what I thought was the worst job ever. Years later, it was the best thing that ever happened to me! So much of my life has brought me to my present moment by chaos, luck, chance and randomness. No path I took back then had a guaranteed outcome of success. No path was really all that secure. Or perfect. I believe that as I think about taking the next step in my career and my life, I don't need to over-analyze the possible consequences. Instead, what I need to do is to balance my overly logical, hyperactive mind with my intuitive mind and choose a path based as much on my gut, instinct, passion, personal interest and core beliefs. I have realized that if I am to feel less
stress and anxiety about career uncertainty, I need to accept that chaos and unpredictable events will lie on every path. No matter which road I take, it will be full of bumps, shocks and maybe even LUCK! And just maybe taking one of those paths will put me into what I call the "Sweet Spot" of Luck, Randomness and Chance! You have to be in it to win it!!! And maybe the guy who everyone says is 'lucky' will be me? Maybe the person everyone thinks has got a 'golden chance' might just be me. Why not? In a world full of chaos and unpredictability, anything is possible bad and good. But why not good? Why not awesome things? Why not success? Chaos favors those who embrace it! So, on the road full of chaos it does not matter which path I choose because there is no sure outcome of any path. All the dots will connect and everything WILL make sense in the end. What really matters most is that I stop staring at the lists of pros and cons and start walking!
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Continued from page 5 support of 275 participating affiliates. National Women Build Week is one of the major initiatives supported through Lowe’s five-year, $20 million pledge to Habitat. As the underwriter of the Women Build program since 2004, Lowe’s conducts “How-To” clinics at stores to teach women construction skills, enabling them to support Habitat projects across the country. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland and the Brighton Ave. Lowe’s Store hosted a “How-To” clinic to prepare women volunteers to build in Freeport. “Lowe’s has been the proud sponsor of Habitat’s Women Build program since 2004,” said Marshall Croom, chairman of the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation. “Women Build encourages women from all ages and walks of life to pick up their hammers and build affordable homes alongside local
families. Lowe’s salutes all the women volunteers who take time to build this week and values the difference Lowe’s and Habitat are making in the lives of families across the nation.” The U.S. Census Bureau reports more than 12 million children—one out of every six—are living in poverty in the United States, where more than 70 percent of Habitat’s U.S. houses are built in partnership with women heads-of-household. In Cumberland County more than 50 percent of families cannot afford the median home price. Habitat’s Women Build program recruits, educates and inspires women to build and advocate for simple, decent and affordable houses in their communities. Since the inception of Habitat’s Women Build program in 1998 more than 1,900 Habitat for Humanity Women Build houses have been constructed in partnership with low-income families.
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