8 Soft Skill on your CV

Don’t Leave These 8 Soft Skills Off Your CV

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Don’t Leave These 8 Soft Skills Off Your CV

When applying for a job, there are many ways to optimize your CV. You can research the employer’s priorities in terms of experience, and highlight what’s most important to them, for example. You can include any major achievements, like exceeding sales goals. And you can include a link to your LinkedIn profile.

A set of skills that career advisors say are also crucial to mention, are your soft skills. These include a variety of abilities, and might just be the feature that sets you apart, and lands you the job.

Here are those 8 soft skills:

Communication skills

1. Communication skills

Why the importance of communication?

This is partly as a result of the new remote and hybrid work arrangements that rely heavily on tech. 

It matters how you respond to someone who sent you an email, for example. You should formally respond to them within 24 hours.

The importance of communication is also as a result of various companies’ initiatives regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.

2. Customer service

3. Scheduling

Time-management skills

4. Time-management skills

When it comes to scheduling and time management, no matter what kind of role you have, if you can’t organize your time, you won’t be effective.

5. Project management

6. Analytical thinking

7. Ability to work independently

8. Flexibility

Finally, when it comes to flexibility, people really have to be able to turn left, or turn right at a moments notice, join a Zoom meeting, and be able to manage their own messages and emails coming in.

There’s an element of ease with multitasking and being able to switch what you’re doing at a moment’s notice that has increased since the pandemic and as many people continue to work between their home and the office.

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DID YOU KNOW

Skillmaster’s E-Learning platform will train you to develop these soft skills, and are easily accessible. Contact Deon Macauley at Skillmaster to kickstart your upskilling journey.

Register for the Workplace Readiness program, Skillmaster ensures readiness for the demands of the workplace. Register here

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Written by Leslie Hurst

Hrmaster Hats Series

10 Hats worn by payroll professionals

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10 Hats worn by the payroll professional: 10-week series by Paymaster

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Week 1 day 1

A few months ago, while talking to a group of Payroll people I was asked, “what will the future payroll administrator look like” and “what will be doing”

I must confess that I am biased. I love being in Payroll, I love serving my customers(employees ) and helping Management wherever I can. I am proud of what we do. BUT I am saddened by the image we have, the feeling that we are only noticed when things go wrong.

Anyway let’s start this series:

We are not

  1. Retreaded staff with nowhere else to go
  2. Payroll is not the last step before retirement
  3. We don’t all have our hair in a bun and a scary frown on our face
  4. We don’t like being stuck away in corners
  5. We are not data captures.
  6. We are not there to bend the rules because you messed up and now don’t want to face the consequences.

What are we:

  1. Proud employees who have chosen administration as a career
  2. We love getting things right – it is in our nature
  3. We think about influencing strategy and understand what the company remuneration policy is and how it impacts strategy and results
  4. We are open and friendly but can be tough at times
  5. We love doing analysis, what if calculations
  6. Trusted – you have no idea of the secrets we keep – “especially when we like you”

The 10 HATS:

Over the next 10  weeks we will be looking at the hats we wear and the challenges we face.

  1. Interpreter of the law
  2. Accurate keeper of information
  3. Gatekeeper of compliance
  4. Communicator of changes
  5. The responsibility of “What if” questions
  6. Trusted confidant/employee
  7. Financial counsellor
  8. The problem solver
  9. Moral compass
  10. The interpreter of company policy

We will use five key words  (one every day of the week) to focus your attention on subsections of HAT (the subject at hand)

The 5 key words are :

Information – what does this topic mean

Inspiration – why is this topic important for me

Education – what do I need to know, (policy procedures, knowledge or consequence

Community – a place where you can tell your story

Survey – let’s find out what we all think.

Join me on this journey of discovery and adventure. We will all learn something.

Coming up…Hat 1: The Payroll Administrator as implementer of Legislation

Find the HATS videos on our YouTube channel today!