Put yourself in the employer’s shoes for a moment.

Employers want to know if you have the practical skills to do a job. From your standpoint, you feel that more education provides that assurance … but it doesn’t!

More education, degrees or college qualifications proves that you are academically smart but it does not prove that you know about the specifics of a particular liine of work like Business Analysis or Technical Writing or Project Management or Computer Programming.

This is because someone who is knowledgable in those areas will always out-perform you in those specific duties regardless of your educational qualification.

Change your mindset by answering a few questions:

1. What specific line of work are you interested in pursuing?

2. What are the practical skills required to perform that work?

Yet I have no experience in none of the degrees.

This is a challenge since no one wants to hire you w/out experience.

I also have 3 resumes:

1) Administrative Assistant

2) Criminal Justice

3) MBA

Les, How are you?

I would be glad to help you with some information.

There is a lot that may be said, so I will ask you to look out for the SWOT Training that I’ll be releasing in the week 1 week for Freelancers whiuch will include:

1. “How to align your strengths with your market”
2. “How to use run your business using SWOT Analysis”

Here is some information on how SWOT Analysis Training will help you:

1. Start with a SWOT Analysis which helps you view your business or industry in a 360 degree fashion. SWOT Analysis will help you determine how your business stacks up compared to your competitors in your m,arketplace.

2. SWOT Analysis will help you identify the opportunities that you can or should capitalize on!

3. SWOT Analysis will help you develop business plans for your marketing or a job search activities.

The planning which SWOT Analyaia helps you do will tell you how you are going to achieve your business objectives.

It addresses things like how you will take advantage of your opportunities (tactics) as well as measures you will use to track or monitor progress.

That’s it in a nutshell.

I will be posting a detailed reply to your comment soon.

Cheers.

Hi ‘Coach’!

As a (nearly) new we-faced business I’m facing the classic ‘how do I drive the right kind of client – not just a browser – to my site, without incurring huge consultancy fees, or having to spend a fortune on Google Adwords?

Regards

The demand is not based on having more or less than fifteen years of experience.

When I started my consulting career I had 1 month of experience but the demand for my skills was the same as if I had 5 or 10 or 15 years of experience.

The demand is based on “how good you can prove that you are” and not on the actual number of years even though it may seem otherwise.

But you did bring up a good point. Which is, what is the demand for our skills based on?