What skills to put on resume
Expert sources (3)
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How To Find Your Niche & Turn Passion Into Profit — Ikigai Workshop
Chris DoDesigner and educator - 2
Body Language Expert: How To Overcome Awkwardness | Vanessa Van Edwards | EP 565
Vanessa Van EdwardsBehavioral investigator - 3
Stop Awkward Chats—Master These 9 Proven Techniques
Bruce LambertCommunication expert
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Summary
Include both technical abilities and soft skills on a resume. Valuable traits range from practical talents, such as editing, writing, research, cinematography, design, and reading numbers quickly, to interpersonal strengths. Key soft skills to highlight include empathy and compassion, communication and storytelling, social connection, and problem-solving. Include the specific talents, crafts, and communication traits that best represent your strengths and value.
When you decide what to put on a resume, list the things you are genuinely good at, both technical hard skills and soft skills. Chris Do suggests these can range from practical talents, like editing, cinematography, research, writing, designing complex layouts, or reading numbers quickly, to interpersonal strengths 1. A few soft and social skills worth highlighting:
- Empathy and compassion: Vanessa Van Edwards points to being a good listener, reading people well, and having strong emotional and interpersonal intelligence 2.
- Communication and storytelling: The ability to explain complex ideas simply, hold an audience, or tell an engaging story, which Bruce Lambert highlights as a core social skill 3.
- Social connection: Acting as a linchpin or social glue who brings people and ideas together, or building community.
- Problem-solving: Hard skills tied specifically to solving real problems 2.
Ultimately, include the specific talents, crafts, and communication strengths that best represent your value.
Add a specific, tangible list of your top soft skills and the concrete impact you have had with them (for example, 'I build teams by connecting ideas and people, and led a cross-functional project that cut delivery time by 20%').