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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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Covering cover letters

Practically Perfect PA

In amongst all of my files and paperwork I discovered a handful of my old covering letters for various jobs I had applied for over the years (one was hand written – that is how old I am!). I wondered how many of us still write covering letters when we apply for jobs?

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Unemployed? Transferable Skills are the Answer

On The Job

In the coming weeks and months you're going to hear a lot about "transferable skills." Transferable skills are those abilities that you can use in a variety of jobs: communication, organization and teamwork. It makes no sense, for example, to apply for a job that's two hours away and would eat up your paycheck in gas.

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How to List Skills Gained Outside of Work on Your Resume

Eat Your Career

It’s meant to show a prospective employer that you have all the skills required to do the job for which you are applying, and that you’ve used those skills before in a professional capacity. Can you include those skills on a resume, and if so, how? Can you include those skills on a resume, and if so, how?

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A Cover Letter is NOT Optional!

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection A Cover Letter is NOT Optional! A cover letter IS important. Your cover letter serves as your introduction.

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

Success

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. For example, adjusting a communication plan resulted in increased participation or engagement. You’ve optimized your resume.

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How to Use ChatGPT: Working With Generative AI

Success

Helping with professional documents: Ideate and write resume drafts , cover letters and other documents. The most important thing is that you approach it less like a technical skill and more like meeting a whimsical, yet highly intelligent, new friend. Editing and spell-checking: ChatGPT will gladly check your text for errors.