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Skills, in fact a side project looks great on a CV too as Judith demonstrates here: if your SEO is not moonlighting, fire them. 3) Craft a Kick-Ass CV When thinking about applying for a job it's crucial to create an astounding CV, but SEO doesn't offer too many transferable skills does it? Think again. Instead of putting things like "linkbuilding" on your CV, take a look at Rand's post on skills that have served him well.


All those skills would stand out on a CV. Also worth ta australia business email lists king a look at is Rand's whiteboard friday on how to get an SEO job. 4) Do Some Agency Time If you're working in-house then that's great and I'm in no way trying to suggest that SEOs who work at agencies are better at SEO. But, it has to be said that working agency side you get to work on many more industries than you would otherwise.





You can work on news websites, ecommerce websites, lead gen websites and a whole lot more! Getting experience working on a broad range of sites can really help make sure you're up to speed on all the different niches of SEO - whether it's local, image search, video search or product search. On the flip-side, if you're working agency side then consider working in-house for a bit. You'll get experience in reporting to a board as well as having to experience first-hand the challenges of getting buy-in from other departments.