Standing Out – Post 5

This is the fifth in a series of posts from the current draft of a book I’m working on, Standing Out: A Short Guide for Proving Your Value to Employers.

For an extensive explanation of this post’s content, check out the first in this series of posts. I suggest you read that before diving into this post, but my hope is that each post will also stand alone on its own and can be read out of order too.

Consider everything in these posts copyrighted by me: Copyright © 2024 Race Bannon. Also, like much nonfiction content, this is entirely my perspective. Other professionals might have different perspective, and I suggest you listen to them all. No one person has all the right answers, including me. What this book contains is my opinion about how to stand out among potential and current employers. If you agree or disagree with what you read, I hope it will prompt deeper thinking about the topic. I will never position myself as the ultimate expert on anything, including this topic.

Related posts:

Standing Out – Post 1
Standing Out – Post 2
Standing Out – Post 3
Standing Out – Post 4
Standing Out – Post 6

Proving you can self-educate

One of the things that’s incredibly important to convey to a prospective employer is that you can easily learn new things. The ability to self-educate is the most valuable skill set an employee can have in the eyes of a hiring manager who’s aware that the job is going to likely require a long process of onboarding and training to bring an employee up to speed. The more you can assure the hiring person that you have great self-education skills, the more likely you are to get hired.

That’s why in addition to some of the more typical mechanisms for demonstrating your value to an employer, some of the advice here is to help you prove your self-education abilities. Or at least that you have the abilities, awareness, and motivation to engage in the self-directed, ongoing development of your skills and information to do your job well both now and in the future.