Skills to Include in your Resume

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Below is an approach I suggest to identify soft skills you possess that speak directly to a target employer:

1. Identify one or two of the biggest projects you’ve worked on in your current and previous roles.
2. Pinpoint the challenges you had to overcome to successfully complete the projects identified.
3. Record the each of the steps you took to overcome those challenges. What did you do specifically? What soft skills did you use? Be specific.
4. How can you clearly describe theses skills to demonstrate your abilities and how they were essential to the project's ultimate success? How can you refine this description to emphasize those competencies that relate to the employer's specific requirements?

(e.g., "Did the team disagree about how to pursue a project? Did you play a role in helping your coworkers arrive at a common vision? If so, you’ve developed skills in mediating disputes and building a collaborative environment. Or did you have to take a poorly defined problem and turn it into a series of discrete challenges that you could tackle with individual projects? If so, you’ve honed your skills in project design and implementation, not to mention your team communication skills.")

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