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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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Some companies may even hire a candidate with exceptional people skills but little technical knowledge, figuring that learning technical aspects is easier than learning how to work effectively in a group. 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 personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

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Cover letter. Job offer letter. Learn about these requirements at the Department of Health and Human Services’ HIPAA website. With help from legal, IT, and other departments, they create a written-out document retention policy. This policy clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long.

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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. And youve been following all the best career advice and job search tips youve read, heard, learned, and developed. Youve posted your resume on all the top job boards plus the various industry-focused and niche job sites related to your type of work.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Whenever I meet people for coffee or a meal, I am always interested to learn about them as a person and their work. I love doing informationals because I like learning about what people do, even if I am not in that industry, and perhaps get an office tour down the line, and make a new friend if they introduce me to someone else.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

That’s why I’m learning not to look at the end product (at the goal) but focus on the steps to get there, picturing the actions I’ll take to reach the success and that way I’m already successful because I’m acting and living out my dreams. Yesterday I learned it’s not going to happen any time soon.

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

Men With Pens

In most part, I had a lot of fun reading through applications and learning more about people. That said, don’t apply for internet jobs when you just came online, have no skills, no experience, but can definitely learn everything as you go along. Be a person who learns from evey experience. Kind of flattering. We have this.

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