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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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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Cover letter. Job offer letter. Records relating to promotion, demotion, transfer, or layoff. Letters of recognition and awards. 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

BMT Office Administration

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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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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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. It’s in our comment policies. Is your resume a deal-killer Reply Go ahead. I am single.

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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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