What Can You Do?- Skills over Qualification

We are in the age of technology and today the important question that one needs to answer to get a professional career is: "What can I do?"

Surprised? Don't be, because this is the question one needs to answer today as a professional.

Today the world will not ask what have you studied, they will ask what can you do for me, to answer this question the only method is to have skill showcased properly in the CVs or Resume.

The easiest observation of the focus shifting from qualification to the skills is that today, all the updated resume formats have the education section either moved at the end of it or to the smaller font in the sub columns.

Gone are the days when candidates of premier institutes used to be hired without questioning, today even they have to go through the process of pre- employment testing and interviews to see where and how they fit in the organizations.

For a simple understanding, skills have toppled qualification because over the decades of qualification based hiring the employers or the job givers have understood that its not the qualification that makes someone suitable for the job, qualification at the maximum can be taken as a barometer for eligibility which in some cases can also be excused.

However, skills have no replacement. Skills are the growth and survival techniques that one requires for the development of professional career by being a value add to the employer and the value they add is by getting productivity out of their skills.

Hence, the question is, "what can you do?" If you can do something for the employer then you can also justify why you claim to it. Not just that but also prove with a lot of experiential examples as to how you have tested yourself on skill and all the justification that the candidate provides cements the claim into a valid statement and finally gets them hired.

Now, entrepreneurs might think, its for the job seekers to answer what can you do for me, but hold on! This question has always been there for businesses, a probable customer turns into a customer and then into a consumer only when they are able to draw a conclusion what value you add to their life and what you can do for them. If you can prove this significance to them you get the customer on board otherwise, its an uphill task to take a dime out of their pocket!

Therefore, before you go out in any manner to the market to say, "I am investment worthy" you should be ready with a very clear and powerful pitch of what can you do for either your employer or your customer.