Build Your Career Skill While Unemployed

Job hunting is time consuming and hard work. You may have to search for days, weeks and sometimes for months. You are still unemployed while your job hunting plan has been improved and revised. It may also mean that you should think about adding something to your skills and experience.

"The employer’s question that he is feeling a considerable gap in employment so what are your activities now and what have you been doing to sharpen your skills or keep in touch with industry?" your all the interview depends upon the answer of this tough questions.

If you add something to your skills, it may results in a number of positive things. As you'll have a great answer to the question and this will be a plus point to you. Increased skills mean your great confidence. More opportunities of networking that can be used to forward your resume.

In the competitive market of today you are required to have superior skills to land a good job. While balancing your time between the job searches and learning new skills can be difficult.  Here are five ways for you to consider how to add to your skills and experience.

• Job hunting is like a exercise. Improve your project planning skills by taking a course at a college or any organization. If you can’t take admission for some reasons, create a self-study plan or distance learning to improve your skills.
• Working in any project or organization can increase your skills and experience.  Assist an organization voluntarily to improve your sales and negotiating skills.
• Improve your written communication skills. Write about different topics, you may write something career related, or about your plans and in adding to your skills. You may take a class in workforce development offices provide free job training. This job training helps unemployed workers to improve writing and reading skills. Search on different sites and sharpen your skills of resume writing and interviewing.
• Attend different seminars related to your field this will include your network and may help to forward your resume.
• Sharpen your presentation skills. Have you something of your interest?  Any interesting trip which others would like to learn about? Work hard to sharpen your presentation interesting and informative for others.

Your confidence will get a boost, with the above five ways added to your skills. Your accomplishment will add to your skills and you may appear in your interview with enthusiasm.