If you feel stuck in a rut at work, Dear Readers, you need to leverage your skills for a better job. Do you know how? The Great Resignation makes it look so easy to quit! Yesterday we learned that inflation hit an all-time high at 8.6% last month. Given this disastrous reality, it would behoove you to know how to leverage skills and land a better job to achieve the quality of life you’ve always wanted! So, keep reading to learn what steps you can take to level up your career!
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To make more money, you need to leverage your skills.
Straightforward, is it not, Dear Readers? Employers offer more when candidates can prove that their expertise will propel the company forward in an unprecedented fashion. In short, it comes down to selling yourself.
Listen, Dear Readers, we all can garner a certain level of expertise regardless of our respective industries. The mere fact that you have survived this crazy thing called life, Dear Readers, believe that you bring a lot to the table. There is no need to succumb to the imposter syndrome! All you have to do, Dear Readers, is to have the confidence to grab the reins of your destiny and start the reckless pursuit of your goals!
Do not think for a second, Dear Readers, that your skills are not valuable. They are! If your supervisor fired you today, s/he would have to hire someone else ASAP, if only to hit monthly and quarterly targets. So here is your two-step game plan to leverage your skills this year.
Step One: Craft a compelling story of your entire career.
Your career path is unique to you, Dear Readers. You’ve had to overcome setbacks that sidetracked your career a time or two. Therefore, to leverage your skills, you must consider your entire career. Start at the beginning and craft a compelling story to explain your professional journey. Dear Readers, do not forget to highlight how every task for each position contributed to mastering the skills you want to leverage and land a better job.
Dear Readers, this blog insists you get in the habit of looking at the big picture of the career path rather than let yourself get bogged down with the minutia of industry-specific resume gaps. Indeed, most of the time, hard-working employees are so focused on their performance that they do not have the energy to investigate how soft skills contribute to their overall competence. The more you can show that each step on the career ladder has impacted the overall performance of past companies, the easier it will be to convince prospective employers that the skills they need to help them soar over current industry standards and trends.
Step Two: Leveraging your skills requires adopting the trusted asset mindset.
As companies lose more and more employees left and right, they are more determined than ever to attract and retain the best of the best. Therefore, Dear Readers, you want to explore the different ways to level up the skills you already have. Indeed, Dear Readers, you want to pinpoint the tasks you currently accomplish at work that you can cultivate to the nth degree and transform you into an indispensable team member now!
For example, Dear Readers, let us say you work at a research lab. You find out at your quarterly huddle that the directors plan to upgrade some of the procedural protocols that fall squarely under your purview next year. You can upgrade the skill set that you have now by volunteering to be amongst the first employees to be trained and be responsible for leading the training of your colleagues. This way, you add value by facilitating the transition when the system finally goes lab wide.
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Do you see, Dear Readers, how you can leverage this opportunity as an entrée into management or innovation? Thus, as you apply for the next job, you can highlight every instance that made you a necessary trusted asset. Who wouldn’t want to hire you with a solid 30% increase in salary? You tell us in the comment section below if you agree!
Dear Readers, we want to hear how you’ll leverage your skills in 2022!
So, Dear Readers, what will you do to leverage your skills and land a better job this year (yes, amid all the chaos that the global pandemic has caused in the last two years and a half)? Have we convinced you there are no shortcuts to becoming a trusted asset and earning more money? How will you change your destiny today? Do you want this blog to explore further how you can be noticed as a valuable asset when working in a multi-team matrix in the work-from-home hybrid model? Let us know in the comment section below whether we missed anything else.
As always, The JMS team thanks you, Dear Readers, for taking the time to read today’s publication. The JMS blog is here to inspire and encourage as you, Dear Readers, embark on the exhilarating journey to design the life of your dreams. As a small business consulting firm, the JMS team feels lucky to have the ability to support clients across industries through any given crisis that rocks their daily operations. We want to do the same for you, Dearest Readers. We love creating articles that make you think, question everything you thought you knew, and change your life! Let’s keep in touch and tell us what else the JMS team can write about to help you live with more purpose in 2022!
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