Navigating Your Skill Set

Struggling to land your first job post-college? It’s time to take a step back and evaluate your skillset. As a new graduate, understanding your strengths and areas for improvement can significantly impact your job search.

Redefine Your Mindset

Feeling overwhelmed or fatigued at the thought of additional training? If you’re trapped in an “I’m Done” mindset, it’s crucial to shift towards a growth-oriented perspective. Celebrating your achievements, like graduating from college or completing a technical boot camp, is important. However, feeling burnt out is normal. Take time to rest, but recognize that your journey isn’t over. When overwhelmed, determining your next steps can be challenging. Let’s explore how to navigate forward.

Conduct a Skills Inventory

Let’s delve into your competencies, including soft skills (e.g., communication, leadership, teamwork), hard skills (e.g., technical software knowledge, quantitative abilities), and transferable skills (e.g., supervision, safety management from summer camp jobs). When you work with a Priority Candidates career coach we will work together with you to showcase your abilities effectively for the positions you desire.

Apply Your New Skills

Utilizing your newly acquired skills is crucial. Whether through volunteer work, assisting in academic research, or personal projects, demonstrating your skills in action is valuable to employers. Continuous learning and application of your skills are key.

Dismiss Magical Thinking

Post-graduation, it’s common to hope for immediate employment. However, securing a job typically requires months of focused and disciplined effort. We’ll help you devise and implement a personalized job search strategy to achieve your goals.

Inspirational Thought

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom. - Jim Rohn

Let’s talk about how you can find career success