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Get a Great Job When You Don’t Have a Job

Other general skills not mentioned:

3. Now, go back over the list again from beginning to end.
This time around, circle those skills that are checked off
and that you want to continue to use in your next job.
4. Now you have a list in which some of the skills have both
a checkmark and a circle, which means the following:
a. You can use them.
b. You like to use them.
c. You would like to continue to use them in your
next job.
5. There is one more step, and this is the most challenging
one yet. Pick out six of the skills that you have on your
list that are circled and checkmarked.

When it comes to narrowing down the number of your skills to
six, it’s likely that you may be thinking, “I’d like to use almost all
of these skills. I enjoy using them so much that I hate to narrow
down the list to just six.” Think about this for a moment: The last
time you bought or leased a car, did you actually consider every
single feature the car had—from the axle to the hoses to the spark
plugs to the tail lights?

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