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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

Listing your previous job responsibilities, technical skills and education is relatively straightforward. However, communicating intangible soft skills on your resume, like attention to detail, work ethic and people skills, can be more difficult. What are soft skills?

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. Often, soft executive assistant skills are the difference between an average EA and the perfect EA.

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Since the pandemic, people now work six fewer months over the course of their lives

Workplace Insight

As the UK government warns that the state pension age might need to rise, a new report from the the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) claims that, between 2019 and 2022, people’s work span in the UK fell by 6 months. We’re less happy: the UK’s happiness score has dropped 0.5 points from 7.2 out of 10).

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5 Reasons to Attend Office Dynamics World Class Assistant Course

Office Dynamics

There are many reasons why you should attend an administrative assistant certification or designation course but are those reasons right for you or are you still trying to figure out why you should a certification and designation course? This course was created by Joan Burge , founder and CEO, Office Dynamics International.

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Executive Assistant Training Courses

C-Suite Assistants

Hiring executive assistants tends to be a decision around the skills they already possess and upskilling that could take place as they carry out their day-to-day tasks. Are executive assistant courses worth it? What will your executive assistant gain from an online executive assistant course? Upskilling can change that.

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How to Volunteer Abroad (and Great Organizations to Explore)

Success

Sign on to this adventure and not only will you make a positive impact , but you’ll open up your own world, gaining skills, making friends and getting to know another culture. But, of course, like any big adventure, getting started can feel a bit overwhelming. You could gain skills. What do you hope to achieve?

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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

Allwork

2023 grads are entering a job market that is not so quick to employ new grads. This is a shift from the past two years where companies were fiercely competing to recruit interns and recent graduates. Although the U.S. Many of the top-paying and most sought-after large companies, such as Google, Meta, and McKinsey & Co.,

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