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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

Whether you’re interested in an internal promotion or looking for a role with a new company, showing how you’ve used your interpersonal skills to succeed in past positions can make you a much more attractive candidate. 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

BMT Office Administration

Cover letter. Job offer letter. Records relating to promotion, demotion, transfer, or layoff. Letters of recognition and awards. These documents tend to be ones containing sensitive or confidential information. Beneficiary information. Dependent information. Recruiting and screening documents.

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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). You can hang out with your friend and informally conduct an informational interview. That’s great too.

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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. No connections, no nepotism. I am single. No one supports me.

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

Men With Pens

A job ad is there to give you useful, helpful information so that you can see if you’re a good match and to help you apply in a way that doesn’t annoy the hell out of us. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# No, really. The whole thing.

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