The results from an additional 2 student interviews conducted this week helped us narrow in on some of the hypotheses we were testing this week. Both students confirmed that the big difficulty when resume writing is extracting the relevant skills and qualifications from a job description and demonstrating them with their experiences. We found that students attempt to achieve something similar with cover letters, finding a similar level of difficulty to do so. An applicant’s online presence is secondary to rather than reliant upon a job application.
BUT WILL THEY PAY?
Both students identified reasons why they or someone like them would not use a career to achieve what we hope to with our web app. It is very difficult when going to a career centre for help, to see positive results. Until you actually get hired, there is no real feedback to communicate the value of going to the career centre. MySkillBase’s advantage could be that we are available ALL times of day, unlike a career centre.
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