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Your CV

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Employers give you a list of duties – your job description – which you paste onto your CV. You do this every time you work in a new position; hence, you develop a comprehensive CV.

A CV means that now you have a document with a list of different job descriptions. It does not necessarily reflect what you are passionate about and it certainly does not showcase what you are naturally good at doing. Your intellectual capital is not reflected in your CV. It simply showcases a list of duties.

Finding one’s self-worth and intellectual value is not the same-old, same-old. It is really what you naturally tend to do and how you naturally tend to operate. Recognizing this shows you that you do not have to be labeled or boxed by what people think your experience is or by what you should be doing.

It is not relevant to the qualifications you have at all. Every person has a tendency to do things automatically because "that is just the way they are," and it is in their nature. This is exactly what a person's natural aptitude or added value is. However, most people I meet tend to not think about that as valuable because "it is just the way they are".

Irrelevant of job title, company or industry, throughout a career and life you will see a very clear skill-set. I have experienced and seen amazing changes in people who have gone through the process of NAP and taken this into account.

This process can also be used to teach companies to look at what a person's natural value is and how it can change turnover or bottom line  profits. It is very unconventional; and no, it is not the industry standard at all. But it does make business sense, regardless of the type of company. It involves listening differently and really understanding why a skill is needed and what a person can offer. It is relevant particularly in how to retain skills.

I agree that there are thousands of skills per job, but there are not thousands of skills that will enjoy growth in that particular job. There is also a huge difference between a job and a career, no matter what level we operate on.