Quintessential Careers Content Index: Skills

Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Job-Seeker/Workplace Skills

Our comprehensive Content Index enables you to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets related to job-seeker skills topics.

Read summaries of each piece of our content pertaining to key job-seeker skills to determine whether you'd like to click on the link and learn more. The Index leads off with the most recent content items at the top, so you know where to find the freshest and most up-to-date content; however, there are also items for which we have no publication date -- and these are located at the end of the list.

Use the pull-down menu at the bottom of this page to find additional topics that interest you -- or return to the main page of the Quintessential Careers Content Index.

Job Targeting: Skill Up To Step Up Your Career Future
By: Debra Wheatman
Published: 2011, Nov. 7
Summary: Despite the relatively high rate of unemployment that exists in today's U.S. labor market, the demand grows for skilled talent in the workforce. Our article offers some good news about gaining skills to close the gap.

4 Ways Job-Seekers Can "Skill Up" in a Post-Recession Economy
By: Stephen Hinton
Published: 2011, Nov. 7
Summary: The "Skills Gap" is one of the hottest discussions in the economic, education, employment, and political realms. The big questions on everyone's mind are: How can so many unemployed workers not be qualified for the new jobs coming available? and What can job-seekers do about it? This article offers some suggestions on how job-seekers can "skill up" for these well-paying and high-skilled job opportunities.

Skill Up: Raise Your Career Metabolism, Bring Your A+ Game, And Develop More Magnetism
By: Deborah Shane
Published: 2011, Nov. 7
Summary: The skills gap developing and simmering for almost 10 years has finally emerged and reared its ugly head -- and it's deep, wide, and bad. This article tells you how to take control and command of your future, your career, your life, and move it where you want it to go.

Use Stories to Prove Your Skills
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2011, Aug. 15
Summary: How do you convince employers that you possess the skills required to perform a job you want -- especially if you are changing careers and have not yet demonstrated your skills in your targeted career? By telling stories about how you've effectively use those skills in other contexts. This article tells you why and how to do so.

A Dozen Top Presentation Tips
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2009, June 22
Summary: Sooner or later in your professional career, you will probably be called upon to deliver a presentation. This article offers 12 tips to ensure you present engagingly.

Are You Up To Snuff When It Comes To Soft Skills
By: Peggy Klaus
Published: 2009, Aug. 18
Summary: Soft skills are becoming a significant consideration for firms during the recruitment process and gaining the respect they deserve. With soft skills more important than ever before, how can job-seekers credibly portray them on a resume or cover letter? This article explains.

How to Capitalize on the Looming Skills Shortage
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, Oct. 23
Summary: This article summarizes the skills crisis, looks at its causes, and reveals how you can use the skills shortage to your advantage.

Job Skills Job-Seekers Need for Success
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, Oct. 23
Summary: What skills do experts believe are most important for workers to possess in this century? This compilation from a variety of sources, while not exhaustive, provides a snapshot of in-demand skills (and in some cases, values and personal characteristics) that can equip individuals with a competitive edge.

Demonstrate Your Problem Solving Skills in the Interview
By: Frank Traditi
Published: 2006, Aug. 29
Summary: Interviewers need to be convinced that you will be able to fix their problems and help their company achieve its goals. One of the best ways to answer interview questions is to use your career success stories. This article explains.

Mastering the Art of Teams and Team Building: Ten Tips for Top Quality Teamwork
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, Aug. 14
Summary: How can you be a better team member? How can you get your team to work more effectively as a team? How can you lead your team to success? This article offers 10 tips for creating better teams.

Team Player Assessment (Are You a Team Player? A Quintessential Career Quiz)
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2006, Aug. 14
Summary: What kind of team player are you? Take our quiz and find out for yourself!

Liberal-Arts Skills That Are Most Useful in Careers
By: Donald Asher
Published: 2005, April 11
Summary: Liberal-arts majors gain valuable skills that will help in your careers. Here's a short list.

Skills and Strengths College Students May Not Realize They Possess and That Employers Love
By: Donald Asher
Published: 2005, April 11
Summary: College grads often do not realize the just how many skills and strengths they have developed through their college experience.

What Do Employers Really Want Top Skills and Values Employers Seek from Job-Seekers
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D, and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: 2003, Nov. 17
Summary: We've distilled the skills from many studies into a list of skills most frequently mentioned. We've also included sample verbiage describing each skill; job-seekers can adapt this verbiage to their own resumes, cover letters, and interview talking points.

Career Changers Most Powerful Resume and Cover Letter Tool: Transferable Skills
By: Maureen Crawford Hentz
Published: 2001, Nov. 26
Summary: The most effective technique career changers can use in their resumes and cover letters is transferable skills. This article tells how.

Emphasizing Your Classroom Transferable and Marketable Skills
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: Skills picked up in the classroom that apply to the workplace.

Emphasizing Your Transferable and Marketable Skills in Your Cover Letter
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: If the work you've done during college was at a low level and outside your field, the experience can seem difficult to relate to the first post-college job. This article tells you how to do it.

Strategic Portrayal of Transferable Job Skills is a Vital Job-Search Technique
By: Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: What are transferable skills? Simply put, they are skills you have acquired during any activity in your life -- jobs, classes, projects, parenting, hobbies, sports, virtually anything -- that are transferable and applicable to what you want to do in your next job. This article tells how to portray these skills during your job search.

Your Job Skills Portfolio: Giving You an Edge in the Marketplace
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: This article will show you how to develop your job-search portfolio, key elements to consider in developing your job-search portfolio, and the best resources to explore job-search portfolios in more depth.

Using Influence Skills in Career Development
By: Alan Vengel
Published: n/a
Summary: When you have a clear understanding of what you bring to an organization, you become an empowered individual who uses today's projects to build tomorrow's skills. This article shows you how to use the influence model in career development to give you an extra, powerful tool to achieve your career objectives.

What is Your Degree of Analytical Creative and Practical Thinking? A Quintessential Careers Quiz
By: Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Published: n/a
Summary: Wondering about your level of successful intelligence? Take our assessment!

Go back to the Content Index or use the pull down menu below to move to another content area of interest to you.

Find a New Job

What:
Where:
jobs by

Job-Hunting Tools:

Career Tools:

Career Categories:

Quintessential Careers Content Index: Job-Seeker/Workplace Skills

Our comprehensive Content Index enables you to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets related to job-seeker skills topics.

Quintessential Careers Content Index:
Job-Seeker/Workplace Skills