02. IT Technical Skills Summary: The basics
Posted by Richard on October 31, 2008
The Technical Skills Summary includes:
The IT Technical Skills Summary contains two main areas:
- Heading on every page
- A complete list of all your acquired skills
Heading
The Heading on every page contains three items:
- Your name
- Your telephone number or a number where messages can be left for you
- Your e-mail address – just one not 2 or 3.
Complete list of all your acquired skills
Include all acquired IT skills and group them together in categories, listed alphabetically, for easy reference. Every IT professional will have a different set, or list, of acquired skills. Following is a suggested way of creating categories:
SOFTWARE:
- Applications Software
- Databases
- Graphic Development Tools
- HTML Editors
- Internet
- Operating Systems
- Programming Languages
HARDWARE:
- Computers
- Modems
- Routers/Switches
- Telephone Systems
Anything else that you have acquired, even if you have not used the skill for years.
As discussed on the previous page, a four column layout is used, as in the following example:
|
ITEM |
YEARS |
LAST USED |
SKILL LEVEL |
|
OPERATING SYSTEMS: |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
Windows 95 |
5 yr. |
1999 |
Proficient |
A more detailed example can seen here.
You are unique
Remember – YOU ARE UNIQUE. Your acquired IT skills are part of what make you unique and of potential value to an employer, so differentiate yourself.
And you can only differentiate yourself by presenting all of your skills. The list will be as long as necessary to list your all of your acquired skills over the length of your career.
All my skills?
It will be too long.
It cannot be too long if it includes the skills that you have acquired. Skills that you have learned and then applied at work.
You need to present your skills so that employers and recruiters know that you have them. You have worked hard and made a large investment of time and money to acquire your skills.
Think about this! If you leave a skill, acquired 10 years ago, off your IT Technical Skills Summary, then how will a recruiter find it when they do a keyword search of the resume database containing your resume? They won’t find it and you will have missed an opportunity!
Table of Contents
- 01. IT Technical Skills Summary – effectively present your skills
- 02. IT Technical Skills Summary: The basics
- 03. IT Technical Skills Summary: Take action!
