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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

For example, if you’re interested in a project management role, highlighting your time management and analytical thinking skills may be more important than focusing on customer service or creativity. Identify the soft skill keywords in a job posting and include the relevant ones in your resume and cover letter.

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8 Tips On How To Get A Promotion

Productivity Bits

Update your CV and create a cover letter for the position. Talk with your manager or director before applying for the position, so that they know that you wish to apply for the position and they can have time to think about your proposal. Don’t presume you’re going to get the job. Discuss With Your Boss.

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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. Of course, youre going to take a different approach.

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

Be upfront in your cover letter. Now I’ve said it a hundred times before in my blogs, that the cover letter is the opportunity to sell yourself. The key to writing a cover letter and resume is to imagine you are never going to get the opportunity to talk to them (which sometimes is the case).

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Announcement: The Shrink for Entrepreneurs is hiring

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Of course it isn’t for you. As my assistant, you will also be tasked with project management tasks and responsibility for those initiatives I launch with the time you created. You read it right. This is a job advertisement. You’re one of those kicks-ass-and-takes-no-names entrepreneurs. But that’s not all.

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Coaches; 6 Types & 10 Ways They Can Use Online Technology?

Tips From T. Marie

This may include helping clients find new employment opportunities, giving feedback on resumes/ cover letters and establishing strategies for successful job interviews. My online course, Work From Home as a Virtual Assistant and the one on one work I have done with VA’s is actually considered Home-Based Business Coaching.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match.