Five Technical Skills that Must be Available in your Resume
February 28, 2016
Want to get a high paying job in IT sector? Wish to work with one of the well known IT firms? Then, you must have certain technical skills listed on your resume. So, what are these in demand skills? Here, we have mentioned five technical skills that employers are in search of.
So, These are as Follows:
- Content Management System(CMS): It is necessary to have some knowledge about content management system. If you lack the skills of posting content on the website then you must learn it quickly.
It is very easy better use WordPress to learn it. Content Management systems are nothing but useful word processing systems that include features which allow you to post words, photos and videos to a website.
You can also take any online class in any community college. So, start learning WordPress, Joomla, Blogger, Drupal as well as other CMSs.
- Web Development: Web development is the skill that employers are in search for. Nearly 24% respondents of a survey say that people with web development skill are hired the most. At times, web developers also design websites and then create them.
Now days, web developers make sure that company’s website functions as it should be and then it is to be optimized to generate sales. The best way to display your development skills and other skills is to maintain portfolio site. It will help you to post the best of your works.
- Web Development: Web development is the skill that employers are in search for. Nearly 24% respondents of a survey say that people with web development skill are hired the most. At times, web developers also design websites and then create them.
Now days, web developers make sure that company’s website functions as it should be and then it is to be optimized to generate sales. The best way to display your development skills and other skills is to maintain portfolio site. It will help you to post the best of your works.
- Social Media Management Systems: There are various social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and lots more. Social media seems to be a perfect marketing tool for companies.
Social media tools can be used to engage with customers. They can discuss about the brand with their customers and then get feedback that can be used to improve their products. Social Media Marketing can sometimes be complicated and expensive undertaking.
If a company has thousands and millions of customers and multiple media sites then these campaigns are too much complicated for one employee to occasionally check on.
Companies have low social media budgets in millions of dollars. These are advertising campaigns with graphic designs, various marketing messages such as 10% off, Save Rs.100, 50% Off and lots more.
With these systems, companies can easily streamline the implementation of these campaigns. This is not a skill that everyone else has and hence if this is added in your resume as SMMS then I am sure that it will definitely make you stand out from the crowd.
- Mobile Development: Similar to web development, mobile development is also in demand. Mobile developers must create a company’s website making sure that it works well and is easy for customers to use and generate money.
Mobile developers make sure that the website is optimized for smartphones and tablets. There’s a lot of overlap between mobile and web development. So, if you learn mobile development; right now then you can learn both.
Remember to include this skill as employers are hunting for the same.
- Emerging Technology: There are many technical skills in the market and hence it is difficult to keep the track of all. So, just go on and start acquiring one by one and let employers know it.
Let’s say if you known HTML 5 very well then list it on resume and if you have expertise in Big Data Analytics or Google Analytics, then list it too in such a way that it is visible to employees.
So, when you are looking for a job; it is necessary to have your updated resume ready which showcases your technical skills in a perfect manner including certificates and degrees. Represent your skills in such a way that you stand out from the crowd.
Take Away:
Next time you go for interviews, follow these tips and in case you have none of these skills then first try to acquire any of these with the help of free online tutorials. Apart from those mentioned here, there are various IT skills that if you possess; you can get lot of better jobs. For more tips and advice you can contact our HR department. To send your resume click here.
These include Coding, HTML 5, SQL, CSS, Technical Writing, Cyber security etc.
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