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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

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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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What Companies Can Learn from the Southwest Airlines Crisis

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Normal operations have since resumed. The crisis communications plan should outline: who will serve as the company spokesperson members of the crisis team and their contact information an activation strategy (i.e. who notifies each crisis team member) and contact information for external audiences (media, regulatory agencies, etc.).

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Inhuman Error: How Do We Counteract AI Bias?

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Machine-learning applications “learn” by recognizing complex patterns in data. Well, the system showed the resumes of successful candidates to the AI. So, the AI started rejecting resumes that had “female” attributes—for example, a women’s college listed on the resume. How did this happen?

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Protect Yourself with an Online-Appropriate Resume!

All Things Admin

You likely already have systems and strategies to keep yourself and your personal information safe online, but are you extending those protections to the online version of your resume? While it is necessary to add your resume to your digital portfolio , that doesn’t mean you should include all the information from your print version.

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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

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Whether you are a hiring manager determined to build a winning team or a job-seeker searching for the perfect career, you need to know the difference between hard skills and soft skills. The universal nature of soft skills means they are as important to a cybersecurity team as they are to a marketing or PR department.

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3 Life and Business Lessons From Adventure Racing

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We were only a few hours into the Castlewood 8-hour Adventure Race , and already that team was at odds with each other. I went into this year’s race expecting to write about business lessons I’ve learned in adventure racing. Whichever team finds all of the points and gets to the finish line first wins.

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Learn How to Say "No" at Work

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You don't want to say "no" to a request from a colleague for fear of not being seen as a team player. How about we resume this on Monday so that you can have some time this weekend to work on your game and I can spend some time working in my garden?" When the job market is tough like it is now, it's very difficult to say "no."

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