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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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7 Tips On How to Get a Promotion From “Show Your Worth” Author and Former IBM Executive Shelmina Babai Abji

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Since that factor is out of our hands, we should focus on something within our control, like our personal career trajectories and the best timing and method to seek a raise or a promotion. She also recently wrote a book titled, Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work.

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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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Could You Write a Book in a Month?

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I had just appeared on the Today show to promote my first nonfiction book, an account of how my life was transformed by sacrificing some little luxuries. Why I put off writing a book Writing a novel has always been my dream. Why I put off writing a book Writing a novel has always been my dream. No Problem! by Chris Baty.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

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The solution to every problem you’ve ever had is written in a self-improvement book somewhere. Here’s an alternative list of self-improvement books that you may have missed. Self-Improvement Books About Overcoming the Odds. These books will show you how. Best Self-Improvement Books About Following Your Heart.

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SUCCESS Gives Back: Promoting Literacy in At-Risk Communities

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A few years ago, a volunteer delivering magazines and comic books for the nonprofit MagLiteracy delivered some reading material to a homeless shelter in Boston. With help from those magazines, the women are now learning culinary skills and some basics like math. A few weeks later, the volunteer saw the boy reading to his young sister.

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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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Before getting there, let’s unpack the essentials of what skill training really is. It refers to proactive measures you take to acquire new skills, knowledge and competency while increasing your value as an employee or entrepreneur. Learning new skills is paramount to success. What is professional development?

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