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On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 07:02:40AM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Some of my areas of strength are:
> 
> Accounting
> Retail
> Wholesale
> Distribution
> Warehousing
> Inventory Management
> Transportation
> Hospitality
> Construction
> API Development / Integration
> WEB Development (front and back ends)

I think you mean 'familiarity', not 'strength'.

At the point you list more than about 3-5, they're no longer specific
areas of strength, they're areas of (possibly grazing) familiarity.  Given
the depth and breadth of any one of those fields, plus their attendant
specialized natures per company, it's easy to see that nobody could
possibly be a specialist in more than 2-3 of those.

You're a generalist, not a specialist.  Let's call it what it is.

And honestly, this is meant to help, not sting.  If you want to be taken
seriously by -anyone-, you can't go in claiming to be strong in damned
near everything.  You can spend 10 years in one industry and still not
be up on the latest, or even grasp -all- the fundamentals past the level
where you work.  So how do you think prospective employers will view an
overly-broad claim like that?

Which leads to, "Good Lord, what are his communications skills and
integrity like, if he presented this as an accurate representation?"
That's simply the logical extension of knowing you can't possibly be
-strong- in all of those industries.

I know professional CPAs that are -strong- in oil and gas, but good luck
transitioning easily to other industries with their different specialised
needs.  And that's just -one- of the areas you claim to be strong in, is
'Accounting'.  That area alone is prone to specialisation by industry.

It doesn't add up.  I'd suggest picking your 2-3 best as strengths, and
putting the rest as 'have worked in'.

Good luck finding something, man.  In earnest.  Not a pretty market or
time out there.

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