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“Build your skills, not your resume.”
SHERYL SANDBERG
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The School Syllabus Is Flawed
We don’t use much of what we learn at school in our daily lives. The real-world, practical skills we acquire after school are mostly through imitation, self-learning and experimentation.
Traditional, hard skills, taught after school, like engineering, accounting, programmin...
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
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Five Skills That Are Permanent
- Dealing with uncertainties, insecurities and changes, rising above the stuff we cannot control and focusing on what we can.
- Spending or investing time wisely, as time is infinitely more valuable than money, but is wasted.
- The abili...
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When you like your job, but hate your company
- If your organization is the problem, you'll need to update your resume.
- Focus on your accomplishments and the results of your work. Keep conversations about your current company positive. Talk about the hard skills you gained or new skills you want to learn.
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Your resume
Your resume in a job application is essentially the document that’s going to market you to potential employers.
Companies are looking for a particular set of skills or qualifications. If those skills don’t jump out at them on your resume, you may be overlooked, even if you’re the bes...
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