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DaveJ

(5,023 posts)
4. Focus on what you have to offer your new employer
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 03:00 PM
Mar 2012

Depending on what you do, and what you're applying for. Most private sector jobs want to know what you have to offer, and unfortunately do not usually care about anyone's record of accomplishment. After I got my Master's degree, I found that simply describing what I did came off as arrogant to others. I know it's counter-intuitive, and it made me very angry for years, but that's how it works, unfortunately. Look to the future, not the past. What skills do you have that nobody else has, and can it make the business money? That's all they care about.

I do not know much about university jobs. If you apply at a university again, I supposed your record of accomplishment would be more important. I've heard politics are tough in education.

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Try not to take it personally (hard, I know) and don't feel bad about taking unemployment comp... Scuba Mar 2012 #1
thank you very much Soylent Brice Mar 2012 #2
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Woah! rbnyc Mar 2012 #3
Focus on what you have to offer your new employer DaveJ Mar 2012 #4
I know.... Somewhereinbetween Apr 2012 #5
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In almost the same boat since last week. bikebloke Oct 2014 #8
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