As university students, you will
soon face the certainty of finding a job once you graduate. It is the perfect
time to prepare the skills necessary to become flourishing in any career you
choose. Increasingly, employers are seeking for potential employees to be
tech-savvy no matter what career you select. Here are some of the skills
employers are seeking for in job seekers.
1. Microsoft Office
Knowing how to use the programs
of Microsoft Office are very important. As college students, Word and
PowerPoint are the most frequently used but there are other programs such as
Excel and Outlook that are used just as a lot in the workforce. Also, Google
Docs is a important office suite that students should become familiar with.
2. Social Media
We all use Twitter and Facebook
to post pictures of our vacations and talk about what we ate last night, but you
don’t use these sites to brand yourself in the job market? This is the time to clear
out your social media attendance and start looking at these sites as a way to
network with others in your selected field. Also, every college student would
start a LinkedIn account. LinkedIn is used for professional networking and is a
immense way to stand out to potential employers.
3. Adobe Creative Suite
This will depend on the career
you are looking to hunt, but it doesn’t hurt to learn how use programs like
Adobe Creative Suite. Learn how to alter
an image via Adobe Photoshop or prepare web content via Adobe Dreamweaver. Companies
rely on this software and it is great to know in case your future boss wants a
helping hand with a project.
4. Web Development
Learning Java, HTML and other
programming languages are becoming ever more important in the workplace. They
are the building blocks for websites and learning the fundamentals will help
you excel at your future job.
5. Google Analytics
Google Analytics will help job
seekers manage their online presence by tracking and analyzing how Google ranks
and categorize the information on their search engine. As a job seeker, you need
to make sure that when employers search your name on a Google that your social
media sites and/or personal website come up in the search.
There are other useful tools as
like Cloud Storage Services (Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive),
Hardware (Parts of a computer i.e. modem) and Security against viruses
With these skills, you should be
able to show up from the competition and the get the job you want!
For more information you can
visit Expertsminds. Find your favorite
place to study, grab a latte, and pull up Expertsminds!
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