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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

Including a list of soft skills on your resume can help prospective employers and hiring managers determine if your particular people skills align with their needs and what the job requires. Your cover letter shouldn’t be more than a page, possibly even shorter depending on the specific directions provided by the employer.

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8 Tips On How To Get A Promotion

Productivity Bits

Usually, promotion reviews concentrate on how well you are performing currently, are you doing your job and are you excelling and doing more than you were assigned to? Someone asking for help with a project? Update your CV and create a cover letter for the position. Excel in your position. Be part of the team.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I currently work as a lawyer and undertake every day many of the types of responsibilities that make up an executive assistant role, such as administration, communication, project management and so on, usually in a very demanding and high pressure context, and before this I worked in various communications/PR roles.

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The Path to Chief of Staff Whitepaper

Admin Awards

If Chief of Staff is the role you want, then show that you can ask tough questions, make difficult decisions, manage projects, and lead others, even before you receive the promotion, Warner says. “You can sell yourself and your abilities in your cover letter even if you don’t have a degree,” Gaughan says.

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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.