My understanding from reading http://askamanager.org (which is my standing recommendation for anyone job hunting, working for anyone else, employing anyone else, managing volunteer projects, being managed in volunteer projects, or who just likes a mix of intriguing work questions, some totally "People *do* that?" stories, and an excellent commentariat... ahem. She's awesome.)
Anyway.
My understanding is that it's a matter of reading the job ads very thoughtfully, and showing how what you can do transfers to what they need someone to do (and what you'd bring to it that someone else might not.) This is Not Simple. (And it's harder to do in some fields than others.)
But I'd assume financial aid would give you tons of space to talk about good communication, improving process, managing complicated and high stakes data, dealing with confidential issues, etc. that might transfer to a bunch of other jobs (some kinds of law firm work, some kinds of health care information systems work, all sorts of other businesses, etc.)
I'm also getting to be more and more fond of having volunteer projects that I can point to as other kinds of skills (the wiki work I'm doing for Alternity is going on my resume in the next revision, for example, just as my volunteer time at LiveJournal has, and my event planning stuff. Because they're not things I necessarily do in my day job, but they demonstrate other useful things about my skills.)
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Date: 2013-07-17 06:04 pm (UTC)Anyway.
My understanding is that it's a matter of reading the job ads very thoughtfully, and showing how what you can do transfers to what they need someone to do (and what you'd bring to it that someone else might not.) This is Not Simple. (And it's harder to do in some fields than others.)
But I'd assume financial aid would give you tons of space to talk about good communication, improving process, managing complicated and high stakes data, dealing with confidential issues, etc. that might transfer to a bunch of other jobs (some kinds of law firm work, some kinds of health care information systems work, all sorts of other businesses, etc.)
I'm also getting to be more and more fond of having volunteer projects that I can point to as other kinds of skills (the wiki work I'm doing for Alternity is going on my resume in the next revision, for example, just as my volunteer time at LiveJournal has, and my event planning stuff. Because they're not things I necessarily do in my day job, but they demonstrate other useful things about my skills.)