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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

Knowing what to include on a resume can be nerve-racking—especially when you’re applying for a dream job. Listing your previous job responsibilities, technical skills and education is relatively straightforward. So, what are the soft skills you should list on your resume, and how do you do it effectively?

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

Success

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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ChatGPT Will Write Your Resume in Minutes, but Should You Use It?

Success

Job applicants are sometimes proudly, sometimes secretly, using ChatGPT to create cover letters, resumes and even entire applications, and employers have something to say about it. Of those 1,000 participants, 11% reported being denied a job when the interviewer “was aware they used ChatGPT to write their application materials.”

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Some Gen Zers Are Including Their Social Media on Resumes—Should You?

Success

Gone are the days when job applicants scrambled to update their privacy settings and delete compromising photos of party nights from their social accounts before a job interview. They are even using social media to create their resumes. So social presence was essential, but it had to be appealing to be beneficial. LinkedIn is expected.

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Your Top Job Candidate Is Probably A Liar

Allwork

On average, 72% of a job applicant’s resume is accurate while the remaining 28% is embellished. Identifying resume embellishment is simple when employers effectively interview applicants and follow through on background checks. This article was written by Morgan Overcash.

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Tom Rath: How to Create a Better Resume

On The Job

I recently had the chance to interview Tom Rath, who has written one of the most popular books ever to hit Amazon: StrengthsFinder 2.0. In this Q&A, he discusses how anyone can write a better, more compelling resume. What do you think is the biggest mistake someone makes when putting together a resume?

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The Best Assistant Interview Tips

Office Dynamics

So, how do you stand out in a saturated market in which employers are receiving resumes by the minute? In this blog, we will cover a few resume and… Recent events have led to a rise in job seekers, which means more competition.