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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

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Whether you are a hiring manager determined to build a winning team or a job-seeker searching for the perfect career, you need to know the difference between hard skills and soft skills. The relative importance of hard skills vs. soft skills can vary between industries and positions. So how do they differ?

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Want to Excel at Job Interviews? “Interviewology” Author Anna Papalia Says It Starts With Learning Your Interview Style

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Job interviews can be nerve-wracking experiences, and most people don’t enjoy them. Anna Papalia, consultant, keynote speaker and author of Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing , has been teaching people how to nail the interview for more than a decade. But what if you could shift the perspective?

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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Millions of Americans participate in some type of book club, whether virtual or in-person. Book clubs come in all shapes and sizes. They can focus on fiction or nonfiction, have themes to guide book choices, and be organized through places like work, school, professional organizations, religious groups and libraries.

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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

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In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

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12 Personal Development Books to Take Control and Jumpstart Your Life

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Thankfully, the best personal development books provide the tools and strategies—the instruction manuals—needed to perform at our best levels. As with learning any new skill, personal growth takes skill and effort. But with so many book options available, it’s easier than ever to read more.

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Top 5 Tech Podcasts and Books To Educate Yourself in 2024

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Here are some of our favorite books and podcasts. Best books about technology to read in 2024 Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines By: Joy Buolamwini, Ph.D. The book is a combination of memoir and critical reflection that breaks down the biases within the technology through an intersectional lens.

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The 10 Best Books for Creativity

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Take a look at this list of 10 books on all things creative: 1. Authored by Sarah Stein Greenberg, the executive director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford’s “d.school”), the book is a combination of stories and exercises intended to encourage the reader to face and overcome challenges in creative ways. By Pavan Soni.

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