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Networking relationships remain very important to your career, and a resume is often necessary when making career pivots. But relying solely on these traditional job search methods will no longer cut it in the current job market. You must be able to provide verified skills data, especially if you’re planning a mid-career pivot.
What is “verified skills data”?
While your resume serves as a storytelling document for making first impressions, verified skills data (also known as real skills data) serves as evidence of what you’ve stated in your resume. It shows what you can actually do, how well you do it, and where you’ve applied it.
Verified skills data is optimized for AI screening, skills-based hiring, internal mobility and promotions, and career pivots (both linear and non-linear).
In short, a resume describes your experience, but real skills data proves your capability.
Why skills data matters
Real skills data has become just as important as experience and professional networks in hiring. Yet studies caution employers against over-relying on résumés and relationships alone, urging them instead to focus more on skills-based insights.
Hiring is moving away from looking at your past job titles and where you previously worked. Now, it’s moving toward determining if you have the transferable skills to hit the ground running, with little to no training required.
You’ll be more successful in your next job search when you can show evidence of skills, instead of just tenure.
How paNASH can help you verify your skills data
While companies are waking up to the importance of evaluating real and verified skills data to make hiring decisions, I’ve been teaching my clients for over 25 years how to present their skills data to potential employers and stand out among their competition.
I’ve also put this strategy into practice in my own job searches, long before I started my own career coaching business. It’s what helped me successfully land career services roles at places like Vanderbilt University and more.
I show my clients how to assemble, promote, and present a professional portfolio and case studies in a way that grabs hiring managers’ attention. You can also access this information in my on-demand video course, The 3 Super Powers of Successful Job Seekers.
In addition, I’ve created a new resource for my current clients called the Career Pivot Skills Map. It’s designed to help job seekers and career changers create their own personal skills narrative to supplement their resume.
Yes, a resume is still necessary, but it should serve as an index, not the full story.
The Career Pivot Skills Map can be used in informational interviews, job interviews, and the still-very-important networking conversations.
To learn more about the cutting-edge coaching and resources paNASH provides, click here.
