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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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Listing your previous job responsibilities, technical skills and education is relatively straightforward. Whether you’re interested in an internal promotion or looking for a role with a new company, showing how you’ve used your interpersonal skills to succeed in past positions can make you a much more attractive candidate.

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Ghosted After an Interview? Here’s Why Companies Do It

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You polish your résumé and obsess over the wording in your cover letter. Dr. Jenny Woo, founder and CEO of Mind Brain Emotion, and a Harvard-trained educator and researcher on emotional intelligence weighs in. After submitting dozens, even hundreds of applications, you get a callback. And then, you wait.

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4 Ways to Leverage Your Comprehensive Professional Portfolio Strategy

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© 2023 Julie Perrine International, LLC HOW TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR NEWSLETTER OR WEBSITE Want to use this article in your newsletter, ezine or website? Your professional portfolio is a representation of who you are and what you can do, supported by tangible evidence, such as work samples, visual aids, certificates, etc.

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Stand Out at Your Next Performance Review With a Professional Portfolio!

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Cover letters. Letters of recommendation. © 2022 Julie Perrine International, LLC. Julie applies her administrative expertise and passion for lifelong learning to serving as an enthusiastic mentor, speaker and author who educates admins around the world on how to be more effective every day. Work samples.

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15 Fun Facts About Stacy Leitner

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The association I have participated in the longest is the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP). We offer educational programs , educational retreats, and onsite training for administrative professionals. Invest your time to customize your cover letter and your resume.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

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These types of files include: Cover letters Resumes Employment applications References Interview notes Remember not to include any pre-hire documents that must be kept confidential, such as an employee’s I-9 form. Also, you’re legally obligated to retain these records for at least one year by the EEOC.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

At first blush, my pride flared up and my internal Vanessa started to craft a sassy retort to the gentleman about the awesomeness of my resume, yada yada. He asked me if I was open to hearing his recommendations on how to tighten the resume up so it would be more effective and attract more response.

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