This next section guys is all about your core competencies. So these are the skills that you have, and you want to have at least 10 to 15 skills listed throughout your resume. And these skills must align to the skills required, either in the industry or in the job description that you're applying for. So pretty straightforward. In this case, he's got this particular Marcus Smith has financial analyst skills, you might want to bolt that budget maximization skills, financial modeling skills. And you kind of want to highlight the skills that you have bought up in relation to the actual job that you're applying First, let's just say you apply For a financial analyst position, let's have a look.

All right. This is going to be pretty straightforward, guys. And you'll see this lesson done 1000 times. So in Australia, guys, we have a website called seek. So whatever the website is, for your particular country, make sure you go to the main ones. You just google if you don't know, or ask the university or whoever.

I'm sure there's advertising for these particular job sites everywhere. Okay, let's go pretty simple. Let's go to banking financial services, where most financial analysts will resign escrow function unless let's that should be a fair few. So 666 in Australia alone. Okay. Let's go.

Let's click on financial analysts opportunities. You can see this Yes, you can. Alright, so here we go. Pretty straightforward. So excellent. Written verbal communication skills.

So you know, that's a skill that you have. So what do I have here? Strong written and verbal communication skills, okay? So if you're excellent and you're really good present also put an excellent if you say strong, it just signals to me that you're not the best, but you're decent. So I'd like to, you know, be modest, I wouldn't want to be arrogant. So, let's just say you can say let's just say you're from overseas and you and your written verbal quick communication skills used to say, intermediate, or inter mediate, or modest for instance, and that's a nice lighter way of doing it.

So you're not lying. So all right strong since English, my first language and a half decent presenter I think, and verbal communication skills a decent and so is written so I'll write strong, so I might even highlight that strong. Get rid of Excel isn't required. Let's have a look. High attention to detail. Strong attention to detail right?

They enjoy working as a team member. Positive teamwork and collaboration. Okay, so some might say positive team player. That didn't really make sense. No experience required. Perfect.

You don't have any experience. Yeah. And if you're applying for one of experience, then you need experience pretty straightforward. So this what would really impress is cicp. Okay, so this person I CPA, I reckon that's equally as good prior experience assessing financial statements. Great.

So do I have any prior? Yes, I do. So what I might do here is if I don't already have it is I might actually type in Okay. Let's have a look. financial statement analysis. Assessment skills, use the language.

Okay? Pretty straightforward. I obviously want to make sure this formatting is good, too. Let's delete this row. Yep, there we go. So if you can't see this table, guys quick tip, just click it and you'll see the table.

You can edit accordingly. Okay? So if you have knowledge of insurance, you might want to write that down in your core competencies as well. But if you don't, obviously don't lie, there's no point. But if you can match some of the skills that require the corporate companies you have, what will happen is the software but the process that we just went through was scan this and be like, well, this person's got the goods Let's, let's, let's let's have a look at you know, let's least interview them. Okay.

Excellent. That lesson done. And if you've got questions, guys feel free to message me, I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Key summary section so these are the skills that you've picked up. So let's just say you have no experience, you don't have any financial stamen assessment skills, whatever you want to put in skills that you've learned are in your volunteer for more more attributes, for instance, team player positive mindset, leadership skill, stakeholder management skills, more broad skills, especially for the entry level one. So we just saw in that same example, that there are positions that didn't require any experience at all.

So those are skills if those that are jobs that you want to apply for, but make sure that you have at least might say financial statement accurate basic, so because you've done obviously University, you Understand the financial statements at a basic level, you don't have any experience in actually working on them. But at least you understand, you know, what a profit or loss is, what a cash flow is, what a balance sheet is. Those types of things, you know, debit credits, financial performance of things, and especially if you are an investor, if you've read the news a lot, then those are the types of things you can put in. at a basic level. Obviously, you don't want to go above and beyond. I guess what your skills are at.

Excellent.