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How to use soft skills to get the job

April 24, 2013 By Miriam Salpeter

Soft skills

If you are extremely qualified, have terrific application materials, a targeted resume and you’re interviewing for jobs, but always coming up with a silver medal, it’s possible that you’re bumping up against an elusive category: likability.

Filed Under: Career Advice Tagged With: career expert, how to get a job, keppie careers, Miriam Salpeter, soft skills

Soft skills help you get the job

December 18, 2012 By Miriam Salpeter

Landing a job requires a lot more than just the right degree, experience or series of technical skills. “Soft” skills, otherwise known as emotional intelligence, may make a difference between an employee who can do the job and one who does it well.

Filed Under: Career Advice, Interviewing Tagged With: how to get a job, keppie careers, Mark Miller, Miriam Salpeter, soft skills

Senator Edward Kennedy's lesson to job seekers

August 26, 2009 By Miriam Salpeter

Senator Ted Kennedy’s life and how he is remembered after his death hold a few lessons for job seekers.

Filed Under: Career Advice, Drive Your Career Bus Tagged With: Edward Kennedy, emotional intelligence, keppie careers, Miriam Salpeter, Sarah Palin, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy's death, soft skills, what we can learn from Senator Kennedy

Soft Skills Get the Green Light at B-Schools

March 31, 2008 By Miriam Salpeter

The April 7 issue of BusinessWeek reminds job seekers that “soft skills”  are important and valued in the workplace.   (Note:  my search for a link to this story reveals that an expanded version appeared online.) Business schools, including MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, the University of Virginia and Babson College are offering management communications classes to teach “soft skills,” […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: BusinessWeek, emotional intelligence, job hunt, Miriam Salpeter, resume writing, soft skills

Solutions for Work Gossip

March 4, 2008 By Miriam Salpeter

Did you know that 60% of employees consider gossip their number one pet peeve at work?  This, according to a Randstad USA survey reported in Newsweek’s March 10th issue, Loose Lips Sink Shifts, by Anna Kuchment.  Kuchment’s article reports that, at one small Chicago firm, the problem was so big that they attacked the issue of […]

Filed Under: Career Advice, Workplace Tagged With: Anna Kuchment, Career Advice, gossip, soft skills, Workplace

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