Podcast 28: Using Soft Skills to Get Your Cover Letter and Resume Noticed

Soft skills can hold important role in getting
noticed in a job search, especially when integrated
into your cover letter and resume. We'll discuss
how to get that notice by beefing up your soft
skills in these materials.


As employers and organizations look more at soft
skills, applicants need to articulate their soft
skills in the cover letter and even the resume. So
in Week 3 of the Six Weeks of Serious Soft
Skills Strategy, Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob
Graham discuss a number of strategies for
integrating soft skills into resumes and cover
letters.


Don’t forget, you can still get your own copy of
our ebook, The 55 Soft Skills that Guide Employee
and Organizational Success, for free, using the
coupon code “six weeks” at
http://serioussoftskills.com/resources/the-55-soft-skills-that-guide-employee-and-organizational-success/


Among the topics they address in this episode are:


Why we approach cover letters all wrong

Helping employers include you, not exclude you,
from the interview list

Why finding a passion match matters and where
it goes in the cover letter

Putting you as a person in the process

How to connect the dot for the employer in your
cover letter

An example with a manager’s cover letter

A great word to include in your cover letter

How repetition helps you score points with
employers

How specificity in what you are looking for in
a job helps not just you, but your circle of
friends and family

Making sure your resume is quantified

Matching your soft skills to the job
specifications and the unwritten components of the
job

Blending the tools you use and they mention
with your soft skills

Why being concise, using strong verbs and
documenting outcomes helps employers

How storytelling fits in

Key tips for resumes that will make your resume
zoom to the top of the pile



Next Week


We will be in Week 4 of the Six Weeks of Serious
Soft Skills Strategy, where we look at how to put
soft skills to work to help employers see your
value in the interview process.









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