Why is Proving Your Skills Important?

Being able to prove your skills is crucial to succeed in the workplace. Your qualifications alone, although important, are not the only thing employers are looking for nowadays. Being able to understand how your learning, work, and life experiences will help you in your career is a skill that will stay with you throughout your life. It's a skill that will make you stand out from others when you're competing for opportunities.

Recognize How You Learn Your Own Skills 

Learning takes place all over and we need to recognize and be able to articulate the importance and value that all of our experiences (academic, life, professional, and work-related) have in developing the range of skills we have and that employers value. Learning and getting better at any skill takes time and practice. You can practice your skills by doing things like taking classes, doing projects, or volunteering. The best way to get good at a skill is by using it in a job, like an internship or part-time work. It's important to keep track of all the skills you learn and have evidence of them, so you can show other people what you're good at. 

Proving Your Skills with Evidence

CareerPrepped helps you do this by keeping a list of your claimed skills in the "Claimed Skills" page. From this page, you can manage all the skills you have, including the ones represented by Skill Badges. Not only can you prove every skill by adding evidence like portfolio files (work samples, credentials, projects, pictures, videos), endorsements, and testimonials, you can also get feedback on your skill evidence to see if others feel your claimed skills are well proven or not, and what to do to improve the way you prove your skills. 

Here are some questions to help you pick the right evidence to support your claimed skills:

  • How does the evidence you choose show your skills?
  • What was the situation when the evidence happened?
  • What were you trying to accomplish?
  • What was the result?
  • How did you contribute?
  • Who else was involved in the situation?

See Animated GIF of Accessing Your Claimed Skills Page and Adding Portfolio Evidence to Skills