4. Skipping an inventory of your skills
Having a full inventory of your marketable skills can make or break a job opportunity. Here’s an example: Mary, a nurse from Tufts Medical Center in Boston, wants to follow her husband to another part of the country. They don’t want to move before she finds a job there. Mary was an OR nurse, but she also helps with collecting and organizing data for a daily business dashboard. When she tells me that she has had a few interviews but hasn’t been able to secure a job yet, I ask her for the inventory of her marketable skills. Mary hadn’t done this list. When she goes through the exercise of listing an inventory of her marketable skills, she lists the work from the daily business dashboard project—collecting and organizing the data in a nice database. The next day, Mary flies out to interview for a nursing position, and her interview goes just like all the others—until the end. The interviewer asks if Mary has anything else to add. Mary remembers the list and mentions the daily business dashboard project. The interviewer almost jumps from his seat. Because of that “minor” expertise, Mary was offered the job in a few short days. Her success came only days after we did her Inventory of Marketable Skills.
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Is Vlad a Nurse??? I love how these people who have absolutely no idea what we do and how we workd give advise on profession. Go to an expert and ask another nurse.
Dear Lecia,
Thanks for your comment. I did spend 5 years – between 2004 and 2009 with Tufts Medical Center, working closely with the OR nurses. I am not a nurse — my position was Business Manager Perioperative services. I am curious as to what career advice you found to be “absolutely” out of line with your profession? I would be happy to learn from you if you have any specific advice to offer. You can post a comment or email me directly. Thanks.
Job search in nursing is totally different than looking for a business job. I have 30 years experience in IT with much of it in contracting/consulting. There is no nursing shortage if there really was the jobs would be there instead of filled by those from other countries.