Describing Your Courses, Work Experience, and Accomplishments

By Sarah Roberts
Resume-Templates.com

When describing your courses, work experience, and accomplishments, it is imperative that you demonstrate how these items will benefit the employer in the position for which you are applying. When writing these sections, you need to determine what skills you acquired that the employer would want for the position. Job skills are usually divided into three categories:

Functional or Transferable Skills
Adaptive or Personal Skills
Technical Skills

Functional, or transferable, skills are those you can take with you from job to job. Some examples are: coordinating, leading, problem solving, persuading, negotiating, and organizing. Use action verbs to describe your application of the skills. Example: Negotiated contracts with Fortune 500 companies.

The second type of skills is adaptive, or personal, skills. These are skills which describe you. Some examples are: accurate, adaptable, conscientious, creative, dependable, efficient, energetic, friendly, methodical, motivated, outgoing, productive, reliable, self-disciplined, and successful.

Technical skills, the third type of skills, are acquired through your education or work experience. These skills are usually very job specific and may not be needed at other jobs for which you are applying. These include the ability to type, file, write technical reports, do accounting, use specific software programs, program in computer languages, and the like. When creating your resume, include only the technical skills that are applicable to the position you want.

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