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

Write other general skills or action words that are not on
this list, but that fit you or your past jobs:
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At this point, you should be feeling pretty good. I will bet you
right now that you actually have more skills than you suspected
you had.
You may also be thinking, “Okay, good organizational skills,
communication abilities, and supervisory accomplishments are
all parts of my profile, but that’s not all there is to what I know
how to do.”
You’re absolutely right!

Job-Specific Skills
All we’ve talked about so far are very general skills that could be
used in a number of jobs. But when you think about it, in your
particular area of expertise, you use very specific skills that are not
used in other professions.
We call these abilities job-specific skills, or those abilities that
you need if you are to succeed in your particular job at your par-
ticular company in your particular industry.
Scan the following information for some examples of job-
specific skills for different occupations. You may not see your

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