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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. 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 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. Focus on job duties, skills, qualifications, personal qualities and necessary software. Instead, you have to focus on your transferable skills and experience so you make sense when your prospective employer checks you out.”

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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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10 Best Tools to Help You Land Your Dream Job [2021]

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And if you’ve worked in the same position for years, you might need some brushing up on your office skills and resume building too. Grow with Google offers free online tutorials and productivity tools to bring your office software and application skills up to date. And it offers resources to write your cover letter too.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

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Cover letter. Your cover letter is often the first touch point you have with a potential employer, so you need to make the right impression. You should have two versions of your cover letter – a formal one that can be printed and an electronic version for online submission systems. Letters of recommendation.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Hiring an Executive Assistant

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Executive Assistant Job Requirements Essential Skills and Qualifications Communication skills: The importance of concise and effective communication in writing and speaking for an EA cannot be overstated. Implement skill assessments to objectively measure candidates’ abilities.

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How to Hide Your Age on Your Resume

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You can, however, remove dates associated with your education and any degrees you have obtained. I presume it’s simply because, with education, timing doesn’t matter much. Do Emphasize Current Tech Skills. This is one area where it’s perfectly fine and no one will give it a second thought. But that’s the standard.

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