Podcast 31: Helping Applicants Use Soft Skills to Make Hiring Decisions Easier

This is the last week of our Six Weeks of Serious
Soft Skills Strategy and this week we look at a
specific job posting and talk about how the
employer could have better integrated soft skills
into the job posting, valuable information for
employers and job seekers.


In this week’s episode, Dr. Tobin Porterfield and
Bob Graham discuss various aspects of integrating
soft skills into a job announcement.


Among the topics they discuss are:


Getting soft skills into the competencies and
qualifications an employee needs

How to combine soft skills into one bullet in
an employment announcement

Taking what’s in the job add and adding a story
about your soft skills

Talking about a situation that covers lots of
soft skills in the cover letter

Why a story is worth a thousand promises of
what we can do

Using an employment advertisement to set good
candidates up to succeed

How to show growth, not experience, at a job

How applicants can read between the lines of a
job posting

Being a rock versus a rock star

Using soft skills to develop the fiber of your
organization



Next week


We start the first of two weeks of how to become a
Networking Ninja. Networking is an important career
skill, encompassing many soft skills. We’ll break
it down and give you some real good hints for
networking effectively, even if you are an
introvert.









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