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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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Knowing what to include on a resume can be nerve-racking—especially when you’re applying for a dream job. However, communicating intangible soft skills on your resume, like attention to detail, work ethic and people skills, can be more difficult. Why is it important to list soft skills on your resume?

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

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Job-seekers acquire these through education, training and experience. For the individual, superior personal skills provide advantages in job satisfaction and foster the likelihood of promotion. In fact, the two are so intertwined, that soft skills training has become highly valued by most institutions.

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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

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Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. However, some of that excitement is probably due to the pay raise that they expect will come with the promotion. But sometimes employers offer promotions without an increase in pay, a growing phenomenon called dry promotions. What is a dry promotion?

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How To Strengthen Your Workforce: Cultivate Growth Opportunities For Women

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According to McKinsey & Company, 100 women were promoted to manager for every 130 men in 2021. From gender gaps in pay to promotions, women are burdened with limited opportunity and earned profit from their work. Working women face barriers and exclusion from career growth opportunities, negatively impacting the future of work.

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U.S. Workforce Clashes with Persistent Ageism

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In the workplace, ageism manifests in various ways — such as younger employees being promoted over more experienced colleagues, to inappropriate comments about an employee’s age. think employers should provide anti-bias training and 45.5% want employers to promote intergenerational collaboration that can help bridge the age gap.

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Unmasking the Corporate Return-to-Work Fallacy: A Genuine Approach to Junior Staff Development

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Envision this: a prominent technology firm opts to recall its workforce to the physical office, presuming this will promote mentorship and facilitate organizational continuity. This promotes teamwork and organic knowledge transfer while reducing the burden on senior employees.

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How Candidates And Managers Can Identify And Combat Age Discrimination

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According to a ResumeBuilder survey , nearly four in 10 hiring managers admit to reviewing applicants’ resumes with age bias. Implementing unconscious bias training for all employees is a good foundation. Perhaps most crucially, promotions and raises should be based on performance, not age. .