Looking at Your Real Life Experiences in a New Way
This is an edited excerpt from Resume Writing for Teens (and Other First Time Job Hunting Tips), written by Lisa Frederiksen.
We all have experienced and performed tasks that can be translated into skills useful in the workplace. A person learns or acquires job skills in many ways, such as in education, chores at home, spare-time activities and work experience. These are called transferable skills.
Make a list of the activities you have done. Include your educational activities, as well as your spare-time and work activities. Don't forget to include volunteer work and your responsibilities at home. From there, you can view one's activities in a new way:
Growing up in a busy family can be tranlated as:
• Managed two younger siblings while responsible for family's laundry, yard maintenance, evening meals and housekeeping while parents at full-time work.
Watching movies all the time can be tranlated as:
• Gained considerable knowledge of movies, ranging from drama to action and from the classics to present. With this interest, have tracked the lives and work of actors and directors and can give a brief summary of hundreds of movies.
Sewing Halloween costumes for siblings and friends:
• Costume design and sewing experience making five year's of Halloween cosumes for siblings and friends with themes ranging from fantasy to horror.
Playing team sports :
• Acquired team-builidng and conflict resolution skills while playing three years on the high school volleyball team.
Skate boarding since 4th grade can be tranlated as:
• Balanced school work with roughly two hours of skateboard practice per day. Learned time-management skills, discipline and organizational skills while working with a team of youth and adults to deisgn and build jumps in local areas.
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