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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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For example, if you’re interested in a project management role, highlighting your time management and analytical thinking skills may be more important than focusing on customer service or creativity. Your cover letter shouldn’t be more than a page, possibly even shorter depending on the specific directions provided by the employer.

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The September Surge Is Here: How Job Seekers Can Prepare to Land the Role

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Maybe you’ve even played with AI enough to know you are still a better cover letter writer. Many of my clients use AI, like ChatGPT, to give them a first draft by copy/pasting the job description into the platform and asking it to map to the relevant information from their resume which is also then copy/pasted,” she says.

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5 Ways to Include Volunteer Work on a Resume

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As you write your resume and cover letter, ask yourself if bringing up your volunteer work would help you provide solid examples during an interview. Words like management, communication, leadership, customer service, fundraising, etc.,

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Set Yourself Apart from the Competition » Make or Break Moments

Make or Break Moments

Each had a resume, test scores of the tests they’d volunteered to take to show their abilities and each provided a cover letter and their hourly rate. The cover letters were of varying degrees – some addressed me as Sir/Madam or To Whom It May Concern while some called me by name.

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Answering Reader Mail: What Do Employers Look for in High-Level EA Candidates?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

“I came across your blog while surfing the net for information on high-level executive assistants. There wasn't much information out there. First and foremost, your job as an EA is to master working with many different people in a customer service role, and the admin work is actually secondary.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

The reason I was willing to confess was because I realized I was putting a client relationship at risk – and because I cannot abide bad customer service, I also realized that I needed to address this issue. I graduated and moved to New York, where I landed my first job on the strength of one cover letter.

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