Taking a personal inventory is the next good step in your job search action plan. Uncovering your special talents is essential to finding out what job would be the best fit for you and your potential employer. Discovering what are your skills, qualifications, values, beliefs, and interests is a great way to begin setting a goal and developing a plan. Good tools for discovering your qualities could include attending a portfolio class, take online testing, or visit a career counsellor. These exercises are great for discovering or rediscovering all the things that make you unique- by uncovering assets (and possible challenges) toward achieving your career goals.

Through the excavation of your skills you may discover that you have interests that you have never considered as career related. For Example, you have discovered that you enjoy helping others, have always done so, and yet have not considered your helping abilities as a skill or experience that is relevant to your job search.  A career is the culmination of all the learning, training, experiences, and jobs.  A career path is not necessarily in one field, such as a scientist, counsellor, doctor. Your career is the sum of all your experiences. So. . . .  draw on these to extend skills inventories. Researching skills requirements for jobs is relatively easy and accessible one method is looking at Labour Market Information site: http://www.labourmarketinformation.ca found on the internet.

Once you have a better picture of what skills you have to offer, you will have a better idea of how you should present your skills to the prospective employer.