If you’ve decided it’s time for a new job and you come across the perfect role, but you lack the specific experience required, you might feel as if you don’t have a chance.

That doesn’t have to be the case, though. There are plenty of things you can do to help highlight how you could be the right person for the job, including showcasing your transferable skills and showing you can learn the new job. This will help you form a convincing argument for why you should be given the opportunity to show what you can do.

Network in the industry

Making connections with key figures in the industry you’re seeking a job it should be your starting point. There is a huge amount you can learn from those already established in a field, after all.

Subscribe to industry publications to ensure you are kept up to date with the latest events, where you could meet connections with valuable insight into the industry. They will also give you the knowledge you need to impress these professionals when you do meet them.

Social networking in itself can also help you keep in touch with industry experts, giving you the knowledge you need to sound informed about who the major players are and what they’re doing to drive the sector forward.

Marketing software firm Hubspot has explained the advantages of joining LinkedIn groups, highlighting the fact that if you belong to the same group as someone, “you can bypass the need to be a first-degree connection in order to message them” as well as “view the profiles of other members of the same group without being connected”.