Essential Skills to Put on a Resume

Essential Skills to Put on a Resume

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Soft Skills

In some entry-level jobs, soft skills can be more important than hard skills. After all, organizations these days tend to hire more for personality & character rather than skill. Keep in mind, though, that if you’re more experienced, it’s better to stick to more hard skills.

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Soft Skills

Most in-demand soft skills for any industry or field: 1. Time management 2. Effective communication 3. Emotional intelligence 4. Conflict management 5. Teamwork skills 6. Stress management 7. Problem-solving 8. Productivity & organization 9. Critical thinking 10. Attention to detail 11. Adaptability

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Marketing Skills

With new technology developing faster than ever, it becomes essential to move beyond the basics of traditional marketing.  Here are some of the most relevant marketing skills these days, including both cutting-edge online tools, as well as classic marketing skills:

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Marketing Skills

Examples of Marketing Skills 1. Data analysis 2. Web analytics 3. SEO/SEM 4. HTML & CSS 5. Wordpress 6. Email marketing 7. Web scraping 8. CRO and A/B Testing 9. Data visualization & pattern-finding through critical thinking 10. Search Engine and Keyword Optimization

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Marketing Skills

11. Project/campaign management 12. Social media and mobile marketing 13. Paid social media advertisements 14. B2B Marketing 15. The 4 P-s of Marketing 16. Consumer Behavior Drivers 17. Brand management 18. Creativity 19. Copywriting 20. Storytelling

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Management Skills

As a manager, you need to have the right mix of both soft and hard skills. Below are the management skills needed to not only get the job but to also enhance employee and company productivity in the long run.

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Management Skills

Examples of Management Skills 1. Six Sigma techniques 2. The McKinsey 7s Framework 3. Porter’s Five Forces 4. PESTEL 5. Emotional Intelligence 6. Dealing with work-related stress 7. Motivation 8. Task delegation 9. Technological savviness 10. People management

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Management Skills

11. Business Development 12. Strategic Management 13. Negotiation 14.  Planning 15. Proposal writing 16. Problem-solving 17. Innovation 18. Charisma

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Sales Skills

The art of selling has stayed the same despite technological advancements. Humans still strive for contact with other humans.  Despite channels of communication becoming digital, communication and empathetic skills take priority. A comprehensive must-have skill list for salespeople includes:

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Sales Skills

Examples of Sales Skills 1. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 2. Cold-calling 3. Negotiation 4. Public speaking 5. Closing 6. Lead generation 7. Buyer-Responsive selling 8. Buyer engagement 9. Product knowledge 10. Persuasion 11. Effective communication and sociability

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Sales Skills

12. Empathy 13. Social media/digital communication 14. Teamwork 15. Time management

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Design Skills

Just because you can apply filters on your Instagram pictures doesn’t mean that you’re a designer. Today, knowing the basics of design does not suffice anymore. To get hired as a designer, you must know how to create killer branded content for the web & social media channels. Some of the most important design skills for your resume are:

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Design Skills

Examples of Design Skills 1. Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop 2. Dreamweaver 3. Infographics 4. HTML & CSS 5. Photo editing 6. Typography: spacing, line height, layout, choosing fonts 7. Storyboarding 8. Targeting and marketing through visual communications 9. Logo creation

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Design Skills

10. Digital printing 11. Integration of visual communication in social media platforms 12. Creativity 13. Attention to detail & aesthetics 14. Interactive media design 15. Color sense & theory 16. Ad design 17. Active listening

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Basic Technical Skills

These are skills that almost everyone working in an office should know. They should be put on your resume if you are applying as a secretary, office clerk, or any other type of office employee. The basic technical office skills include: Examples of Basic Technical Skills 1. Microsoft Office Pack: Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, 

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Basic Technical Skills

Outlook, Powerpoint 2. Filing and paper management 3. Data entry 4. Bookkeeping through Excel or TurboTax 5. Research and data analysis 6. Basic knowledge of user interface communication 7. Technical writing 8. Cloud networking and file sharing

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Accounting & Finance Skills

Goodbye, filing by hand. Hello, countless platforms and apps. Accountants and financial specialists should familiarize themselves with these skills in order to have a successful career: Examples of Accounting & Finance Skills 1. Microsoft Excel (Advanced) 2. Enterprise Resource Planning 3. Big Data Analysis & SQL

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Accounting & Finance Skills

4. Know Your Customers (KYC) 5. Cognos Analytics (IBM) 6. Visual Basic 7. Accounting Software 8. Revenue recognition 9. Anti Money Laundering 10. Clear communication 11. General business knowledge 12. Numerical competence 13. Accuracy 14. Attention to detail

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Education Skills

How many times in undergrad or grad school have you witnessed a 50-year-old honorary doctor with three PhDs struggle to play a YouTube video?  Methods of teaching have evolved, and so have the required skills to be part of the education industry.

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Education Skills

Examples of Education Skills 1. Updated curriculum knowledge 2. Research & Data analysis 3. Communication 4. Educational platforms (software like Elearn) 5. Stress management 6. Technological & digital literacy 7. Patience 8. Critical thinking 9. Enthusiasm 10. Motivation

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Web Development Skills

It seems like there’s new technology popping up every second now, and web developers are starting to get worried. However, if you are proficient in HTML, CSS, and Java, you pretty much have a leg up on the competition. All other skills on this list derive from or build upon the three basic programming languages. You can learn or improve your web development skills here.

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Web Development Skills

Examples of Web Development Skills 1. HTML/CSS 2. CSS preprocessors 3. Javascript 4. Wordpress 5. Graphic User Interfaces (GUI) 6. Git/Version control (Github, gitlab) 7. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 8. Application Programming Interface (API)

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Web Development Skills

9. Adobe Photoshop, InDesign 10. Content Management Systems (CMS) 11. Testing/Debugging 12. Responsive design principles

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Business Analytics

BAs are very in demand right now by businesses, and for a good reason! They perform an almost magical task of analyzing the past and present to give future predictions. To perform their magic, they need some analytical spells: Examples Business Analytics 1. SQL (a must) and Hive (optional) 2. Programming language 

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Business Analytics

(R, Python, Scala, Matlab) 3. STATA, SPSS, SAS 4. Data Mapping 5. Entity Relationship Diagrams 6. Wireframes 7. Big Data tools 8. Microsoft Visio 9. Agile Business Analysis 10. Machine learning 11. System Context Diagrams 12. Business Process Modeling 13. Technical and non-technical communication

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Nursing & Healthcare Skills

More than any other profession, healthcare professionals need to stay constantly updated with new technologies, medicine, and techniques. The skills nursing requires are countless and specific, but the most basic ones boil down to: Examples of Nursing and Healthcare Skills 1. Mathematics 2. CPR

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Nursing & Healthcare Skills

3. Patient care and assistance 4. Paperwork/record-keeping abilities 5. Compassion 6. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) 7. Telemetry 8. Attention to detail 9. Physical endurance 10. Acute care 11. Infection control 12. Surgery preparation

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