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If you've been unemployed, you've learned how to budget, how to fill in forms, write CVs, search for jobs and are familiar with the entire plot of all the daytime soaps. Don't laugh - people get paid to write summaries of popular soaps.

Tip Keeping old job descriptions will help you come up with an impressive list of skills. If you haven't got descriptions from your previous jobs, look in the newspapers for jobs similar to the ones you've done, get the application pack and look at the the person spec. This is also useful for jobs you'd like to have. Once you have the pack, you can list all the skills you already have and all the ones you need to gain. Then you can make a plan to develop them.