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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. Listing your previous job responsibilities, technical skills and education is relatively straightforward. So, what are the soft skills you should list on your resume, and how do you do it effectively?

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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 relative importance of hard skills vs. soft skills can vary between industries and positions. So how do they differ?

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ChatGPT Will Write Your Resume in Minutes, but Should You Use It?

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Job applicants are sometimes proudly, sometimes secretly, using ChatGPT to create cover letters, resumes and even entire applications, and employers have something to say about it. However, not all HR teams are pro-ChatGPT. If we as humans do not have the skill base, nor will the technology. Surprisingly, it’s working.

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3 Ways to Tailor Your Resume for an Employer

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If you're not tailoring your resume to a specific job, it could be why you're not getting any responses to your application. It's long been said that hiring managers don't spend more than seconds looking at a resume, and if they don't see details that match their needs, they move on. But how do you tailor a resume for a specific job?

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The September Surge Is Here: How Job Seekers Can Prepare to Land the Role

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You’ve optimized your resume. Have your resume ready to go. How to prepare for the September Surge to land that job You think your resume is ready? Jones says make sure your best accomplishments are front and center—at the top of the resume. You’ve jazzed up your LinkedIn profile. Here’s how experts recommend preparing.

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Unemployed? Transferable Skills are the Answer

On The Job

In the coming weeks and months you're going to hear a lot about "transferable skills." Transferable skills are those abilities that you can use in a variety of jobs: communication, organization and teamwork. Once you identify the jobs that are the best fit, then craft a resume and cover letter that truly target that job listing.

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Hustle Culture vs. Quiet Quitting: How Bosses Can Walk the Line

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Bosses had to look long and hard at the culture they’d built and make a variety of decisions—including if a caregiver would be penalized for heading out of work a little early, if a team member could do the same job remotely and whether the end of “hustle” culture would mean a decline in profits. What do we represent?

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