Using your motivated skills on your resume -

Using your motivated skills on your resume - Your resume is highly optimized. It is skills focused and accomplishment driven. Take another look. How many of those skills are the ones you actually enjoy doing? Are you emphasizing what you might be GOOD at doing, but dont care to do at work? Richard L. Knowdell spoke at the Career Management Alliance conference, and I was intrigued by his suggestion that coaches advise clients to OMIT skills from their resumes if they are skills the job seekers do not enjoy. In a tight job market, this advice seems extreme, or even foolish, on first glance. Shouldnt we all be marketing everything we have to offer? Its a recession, after all! So, I posed the question on Twitter: Should job seekers leave off (or de-emphasize) skills on their resume that they do well but dont enjoy? Veronica replied, As job seeker, I dont think should leave off any skills that could help get a job. Each circumstance individual. @vmodarelli Sam Blum, Co-Founder and CEO at Razume said, Resumes are marketing documents, not statements of personal interest. I say list any skill that can give you an advantage. @samblum Reasonable replies, certainly. However, my goal (and that of my colleagues in the career coaching world) isnt only to help people find and land jobs, but to secure positions doing what they enjoy. My friends who are experts in personal branding have a different take! Deb Dib, a CEO coach and personal brand expert explained: I leave them off/give subsidiary placement. Dont want burnout skills attracting interest; fit wont be right. @ceocoach Walter Akana, a life strategist and personal branding expert said, Yes, deemphasize skills that you dont enjoy. Emphasize ones you do provided, of course, what you offer creates value! @walterakana This makes a lot of sense to me. Why attract opportunities that may be a bad fit? Two social media/marketing professionals had some practical advice: Avi Kaplan suggested: Leave everything on applicable to each job dont apply for roles needing skills you dont want to use, which Neal Wiser echoed, If a job seeker doesnt like doing something, they shouldnt apply for that job. Think about itAre you over-emphasizing skills you are not motivated to use on your resume? How much time do you spend thinking about applying for and targeting positions that you would enjoy doing? Are you applying for just any old job? I hope this is food for thoughtIm open to your take on the subject, but I hope youll seriously consider focusing your job search in areas that appeal to your motivated skills. Im happy to help. Follow THIS LINK to learn more about me and how we can work together to optimize your resume to help you land the job you love! photo by BPM