How to Analyze the Job Description as the CEO of ME Inc.

Use www.Indeed.com to find as many “real” positions within a 50-mile radius of your home. Make sure you use the Advanced Search feature on Indeed to specify things like:
— Specific words or phrases to be included
— Exact phrases to be included
— Exclusionary or Inclusionary use of search terms
— Words to be included in the title of the job description
— From which company
— Type of jobs and from which source
— Salary estimate
— Where and When (Location and Age of Post)

Review the list of available positions and begin ruling out the ones that fail your own personal “eligibility rules”; from the list that remains, select the top three (3). Print out these job descriptions.

Take a yellow highlighter and highlight those areas that specify the need for “core skills”, i.e., those skills that are critical to executing the job’s requirements (e.g., programming, database management, server administration, LAN diagnostics, etc…). Make sure you OMIT the “soft skills” such as typing, telephone, fax, office software, written communications, etc.

The CORE SKILLS in each of these three positions are what will be used to build your targeted resumes (note plural: resumes). If you have these skills at a level of 70% or better, you are ready to begin building your targeted resume.

You can do it … I know you can!

Best wishes and keep networking alive,

Coach Rod