GOAL
OF THIS TOPIC is: To develop a clear marketing statement, a
professional profile, focused on selling your skills and achievements
for an employer' benefit
Advantages
of a Benefit Statement:
- The benefit
statement can serve as a starting point in marketing yourself
professionally to a potential employer.
- Makes a
positive first impression
- Helps you
find information about a job, company and hiring personnel that
otherwise would not be advertised.
An
Effective Benefit Statement has the following:
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- Your
name.
- The
type of work you are looking for.
- Years
of experience or background in your industry.
- Key
hard skills and credentials specific to performing
your line of work.
- Key
soft skills that are required for success in the
position you are applying for
- Accomplishment
statements.
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When spoken,
the Benefit Statement should be no longer that 20-30 seconds
Steps
in Writing Your Benefit Statement
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- Research
your job goal using Occupational information to
determine what Hard & Soft Skills you need to
be successful in the job your are applying for (NOC,
Futures, Occupational Profiles)
- Pick
up to two Accomplishment Statements from the
Accomplishment Statements Exercise you have
completed.
- Write
down all of the Training, Academic and Vocational
you have done.
- Summarize
the Information into a one paragraph statement
that is no longer than 30 seconds in length.
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