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What benefit is there for IT professionals to develop people skills beyond those needed for their current position?
The IT field has created many positions that enable people to achieve high quality technical skill sets without ever learning the social skills necessary to be successful in non technical fields. ...
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How to encourage people to visit conferences or do anything else to improve skills?
We're a small team of around 15-20 people. Around 70% of them is really passionated in what they're doing, visit conferences, spend even their weekends on hackathons and have a big progress in their ...
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How to handle interviews for a requirement, on which I don't have hands-on experience but have learnt and interested to work upon? [closed]
I am attending an interview with a requirement on some technology which I haven't worked upon but I have read and learnt this technology. I am interested to work on this technology. How would I put ...
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How Should I Indicate Language Proficiency on my Resume?
Question:
What are some good ways of listing language proficiency on a resume?
Problem:
Language is such a complex thing to explain simply. There are several aspects of most languages (reading, ...
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Ask what's needed to increase salary? [duplicate]
Suppose I'm interested in increasing my salary at work.
Would it be a good idea to express this to HR/boss and let them tell me what THEY expect me to improve in order to deserve a promotion?
A ...
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What examples can I use for “attention to detail” in my cover letter or CV?
As a student I'm applying for a student role within my University, or College as known in the USA, and one of the skills it requires is attention to detail.
Unfortunately, I've not had much work ...
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Soft skill evaluation/review
Our company uses a regular soft skill evaluation/review. It's a one-on-one meeting with the direct boss and the results are not public. It has some aspects like how goal and result oriented the ...
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Found a fantastic job but just don't have the experience; should I still apply? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I tell which job requirements matter in software offerings?
How can I overcome “years of experience” requirements when applying to positions?
I've come late to ...
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How can I promote my problem solving skills (instead of just knowledge) when networking?
One of the most common ways of getting new projects for a freelancer is networking:
keeping in contact with previous co-workers and customers
participating in something like StackOverflow
going to ...
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How can I enhance my skills when my current job is not providing much scope? [closed]
I have more than 3 years of experience in IT.
Sometimes I personally feel that I lack proper guidance as my surroundings are not providing me that much exposure and most of the professional people ...
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Is there an inverse relationship between hard and soft skills? [closed]
In my short time in the work place (I graduated 3 years ago), I've noticed that the people with the best soft skills have the weakest hard skills, and the ones with the best hard skills, and the ...
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Incorporating off-job technical qualifications on resume
I would like to revamp my resume to reflect several off-job, personal projects I have worked on in my spare time, and their associated technologies.
While I think this can't be a bad idea, I am ...
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Is it critical that you meet every requirement of a job you're applying for?
I know that the answer to this question will depend somewhat on the organization you're applying for, but I'm hoping that the situation is general enough to be useful.
I am considering applying for ...
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How do I categorize my skillset in resume?
I am preparing a resume for my job search. I have the following set of skills to list:
PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, CakePHP, CMS(Drupal), MySQL, Google API, Flickr API, OAuth
I do not find stacking ...
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3answers
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What's the best way to convince a manager to let someone take initiative?
One of our customer service reps has been with the company for years and is starting to feel like he's outgrown his position and is looking for new challenges.
His manager is reluctant to give him ...
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How to ask for an agreement about a side income
I was working together with a freelancer on a project here in my company for about 18 months. As he had some knowledge, that no one here had, this work was very educational for me (and in certain ...
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What are good entries for technical and social skills in europass for typical developer?
I'm filling the Europass CV format. It's my first contact with such type of CV format, and I'm a bit confused.
My job experience is pure development (server and WWW, mostly Java+SQL). I've had ...
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Should I list the ability to remember a shuffled deck of cards in a resume?
I am currently learning how to memorise a deck of cards. I haven't quite mastered this skill yet (I can only memorise up to about 40 cards and I usually make 1 or 2 errors), but I expect to within ...
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How can I overcome “years of experience” requirements when applying to positions?
Having just been rejected as a candidate for a job because I do not show the number of years of experience they require, I have some questions about how "years of experience" is interpreted by hiring ...
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What jobs/workplace environments are more conducive to social interaction?
Some programmers are not social individuals and are happy at their terminal all day. Others are more social. I have seen claims that "The happiest Americans report 7-8 hours of social interaction a ...
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How best to indicate that I've been the “go-to person” on a resume
For the past 7 years or so, wherever I work, I end up becoming "the guy everyone goes to ask technical and programming questions". Because of that, I'm always "promoted" (sometimes formally, sometimes ...
