It isn’t a waste of time to think about what you’ve done, what you’re doing now, and what you want to do next. Working out or just re-examining your career objective will mean that you can home in on the best skills you have or those that you need to acquire and transfer them to a CV that really does you justice.
You may think that you already know all your skills, but the marketable skills exercise in Get That Job: CVs and Resumes may produce some surprising results that can help you market yourself better. Sometimes it even shows you that you may have chosen the wrong job objective. If this is the case, you can alter your career goals towards something that suits you better.
You may believe that it doesn’t matter what you did at school or in your first job – for some of us, it may be a long time ago now. However, these early experiences often offer clues to your strongest skills and to where your real ambitions lie.
You may want to change from working in IT to a job in human resources, but without any training or experience in the new area, it won’t be easy to make the leap. So make sure that you do a reality test before you actually start your job search.