CDLE shares tips to improve your resume, interview skills [Video]

DENVER — Congratulations! You earned that diploma or degree. Now you have to get that job.

Katherine Keegan, director of the Office of the Future of Work with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE), helps Coloradans find jobs and has many helpful tips for resumes and job interviews.

Her first bit of advice is to emphasize three key skill sets to your prospective employer:

• That you understand “digital building blocks,” meaning you can both use technology and learn new technology.
• You are a “business enabler,” meaning you can apply your academic learning in a work context or in solving a business problem.
• You have “uniquely human skills.”

“One of the big things we hear from employers all the time is people, they use technology but don’t have soft skills or communication skills anymore. So, any way you can highlight those examples will make you stand out,” said Keegan.In preparing for the interview, Keegan …