Your Complete Career Guide
It very important that you get to know yourself and be able to identify your skills so that you can easily market them to a potential employer. They will be looking for unique skills that you can add to his or her team, and more important how you will fit into that team at a personal level.
Working with employers recruiting for web designing jobs will require you to have particular skills. Usually, a main requirement is proven experience in designing web pages and databases. As well as this, significant amount of extensive knowledge in programming languages, such as .NET, CSS, JavaScript, HTML and PHP are greatly valuable in securing a web designing job.
In general, recruiters also look for other competencies, excluding the technical knowledge and skills gained during study. It very crucial, that evidence of the following competencies is shown during the application and post-application stages.
3 quick points as to how you can market your self to an employer, especially at the early stages of the job application which happens to be the most important for increasing your chances to win the job:
1- Position yourself in the employers place: keep in mind the question that runs through the mind of every employer, including web developer employers, what can you do for me? They are not at all interested in what you can do for someone else. Strike the employers with your application and any other abilities you have gained from work experience and education. Make sure it is related to the job position.
2- Do the thinking for the employer: When applying for the jobs put in mind that employers are lazy to think! Sell your skills and abilities you think employers would most likely want to see. It would be very helpful if you research the company, job listing and so on.
3- Do your homework: It is seriously up to the candidate to get their homework done. To get the job, research and effective written and spoken communication must be carried out.