hey youtubers Jennifer tardy here your career success coach and welcome to the
black career success channel on youtube I hope that you are getting a lot of
good information from previous videos and today's video is extra special
because I'm breaking down the whole notion of experience now you've probably
heard me talk a little bit in the past about the importance of making sure that
anything that you add to your resume related to your previous experience
aligns to what's important or what the basic qualifications are within your
desired job description so if you looked at that job description you're like okay
they're asking for this this this this my weird experience make sure that if
you have had experience that it completely stands out on your resume and
on your application that's how you get seen but neither of those are why we're
here to talk today because we wouldn't look at the other side of experience now
if you didn't know experience is a very important indicator as to how much the
organization will pay you by way of salary now my disclaimer is not every
organization does this the same way the important factor here is that you have
an understanding of what it means to have experience and if you feel it
necessary you can feel free to ask the recruiter what goes into calculating
experience just so that you can make sure that your application has
everything that it needs to have listed within it okay so let's first talk about
relevant experience so relevant experience means that you have all of
the experience as it's listed on the the actual job description but pay close
attention to how it's listed so this is that one-liner where it says you need to
have 10 years of experience data and ever happens within that debt that that
is what's going to be most important to you
now some job descriptions may say that you just need to have ten years of
working experience okay check however some job descriptions may say that you
need to have 10 years of working experience five of them need to be
within this industry or five of them need to be actually doing this specific
job so this job description says that you that for a grant specialist you need
to have been doing the work of specifically a grant specialist for the
last five years then that needs to clearly stand out on your resume that
you've been doing this work got it and if it clearly stands out on the resume
and on the application then you were going to get full credit toward having
those five or ten years of experience that goes into calculating your overall
salary that job offer now let's say for instance that you're not necessarily a
grant specialist but maybe you are a finance specialist who happens to have
done some grants work as a part of your role so and so instead of actually doing
all four bullet points of what they're asking you to do as a grant specialist
then maybe you only do two of those as a part of your job as a finance specialist
so if you're only doing two of the four of those job duties then you're only
going to get what we consider partial credit so getting partial credit is
still important because it's getting you that credit here's another area where
it's important to really think about and think hard about what are those
transferable skills that you have that that could help you to receive credit in
this role too so you may not have been doing bullit job Duty number three but
but maybe you have a transferable skill that gives you that experience that
you're looking for so pay close attention to those opportunities to at
least get partial credit for positions and then the third level is not having
any experience and so if you don't have any experience that they're asking for
in that role then you get no credit and so again as
disclaimer all organizations aren't created the same they don't create all
their job their salaries or their job offers the same so it's important for
you to make sure that you're at least looking at the job description and that
you're aligning your resume to make it very clear how you meet those
qualifications specifically the experience so that you can get full
credit or at minimum partial credit for the work that you've already attained
under your belt so if you have other suggestion to other
thoughts related to experience feel free to leave it in the comment section below
we always have new videos coming your way I am Jennifer tardy I'm your career
success coach and I hope that you have a great day
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