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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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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. Identify the soft skill keywords in a job posting and include the relevant ones in your resume and cover letter.

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

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For instance, if your employment records contain all the disciplinary actions and policy violations committed by the offending employee, you’ll have a better chance of defending your decision to terminate an employee in court. While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it?

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Youve sent out dozens, or maybe even hundreds, of resumes and cover letters. Your resume & cover letter have done their jobs, and have piqued the employers interest - now your job is to make it as easy as possible for them to decide to offer you the job. Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Guest Blogger: David B.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. And since I was there, I dropped off my resume and cover letter. In college, I sat next to this girl and I overheard she interned at a very prominent radio station. No, maybe 1 minute.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I graduated and moved to New York, where I landed my first job on the strength of one cover letter. Just a cover letter. It’s in our comment policies. Corey – Thanks for that, I’d like to see your take on it. Judy – That’s right. Kelly – Ooch, true. Anthony – Mm.

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

That way it’d be easier to filter out all the cover letters containing such qualities… Jack Busch´s last blog. I once applied for a job at my favorite museum and my cover letter read: “I had a mini-heart attack when I found out you guys were hiring.&# Marian Schembari´s last blog.

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