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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

Knowing what to include on a resume can be nerve-racking—especially when you’re applying for a dream job. However, communicating intangible soft skills on your resume, like attention to detail, work ethic and people skills, can be more difficult. Why is it important to list soft skills on your resume?

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4 Ways to Leverage Your Comprehensive Professional Portfolio Strategy

All Things Admin

Do you want to prove that you can do what you say you can, stand out in a job search, take advantage of career opportunities that come your way, and easily demonstrate why you deserve a raise or promotion? Always include the link to your social profile on your resume. Then you need a professional portfolio! Obviously, that’s false!

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

BMT Office Administration

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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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). The kind lady asked me what I did for work so I gave her my resume. She gave me her business card.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. Any recruiter who sees your resume will silently wonder the following questions. Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

He’s also currently working as a promoter and a waiter to pay the bills. I graduated and moved to New York, where I landed my first job on the strength of one cover letter. Just a cover letter. That’s why I promote my site Imageisus.com the bigger it gets, the more I succeed. Kelly – Ooch, true.

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

Men With Pens

Any email that begins with, “I probably don’t have enough experience,&# “I’m not sure I’m what you’re looking for,&# or even “I’m sure you probably have much better writers sending in their resume,&# pretty much forces the reply, “You’re right. DO take a chance. Me: Why not?

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