Sounds funny doesn’t it, Having Gig Experience Can Help you Get A Job. It’s true and makes sense when you think about it. Having a gig requires you to have many of the same skills employers are looking for: focus, hard work, self-starter, discipline, profit focus, communications, critical thinking and time management. Studies show most employers would choose the applicant with gig experience over job experience. Applicants with gig experience have had real-time experience in trying to generate profits and making all of the business components work. They tend to have the skills employers believe are necessary for job success. Today more than 7.4 million people are unemployed with 2.2 million over 27 weeks. One of the reasons many of the unemployed are not considered is they do not have the skills deemed necessary by the recruiter/employer. The AI used to initially screen job applicants automatically screen out those that do not meet all of the requirement criteria. Those with gig experience meet many of those criteria and often pass the initial screening. The trick is to match your gig skills with the specific skill required for the targeted job. What this requires is translating your gig skills into resume language.