List of Soft Skills
Soft Skills for Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews
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What are soft skills, and why do you need them? Soft skills are the personal attributes you need to succeed in the workplace. Regardless of the job you're applying for, you need at least some soft skills. The other type of skill set employers seek are hard skills directly relevant to the job they are hiring for. There is a difference between each type of skill, and how they prepare you for employment.
Hard skills often get more attention in job search advice, because they’re easier to acquire. That might sound strange, given that hard skills can include things like data analysis, project management, and very specific and highly technical coding and programming skills. How can something be “easy,” if it takes years to learn?
No skills are really easy to pick up, even if you’re talented and dedicated to learning. But, the fact is, if you have the aptitude, you can acquire almost any technical skill, given enough time and practice. Soft skills, on the other hand, take more awareness. For instance, you can take a class in effective communication, but unless you’re attuned to your coworkers and interested in listening as well as talking, you won’t become adept.
The Skills Employers Want
Recruiters and hiring managers want both hard and soft skills in their new hires. To find out which ones will help your resume stand out, review the job description for keywords you can incorporate into your resume and cover letter.
Matching your resume and cover letter to the job description, as closely you can, will help you get chosen for a job interview.
Of course, it helps to know what you’re looking for, so here's a list of soft skills for resumes, cover letters, job applications, and interviews. Because required skills will vary based on the job for which you're applying, and you can’t always count on job descriptions to give you the full picture, it’s also in your best interests to review our list of skills listed by type of skill.
Soft Skills List
A - D
- Able to Listen
- Accept Feedback
- Adaptable
- Artistic Sense
- Assertive
- Attentive
- Business Storytelling
- Business Trend Awareness
- Collaborating
- Communication
- Competitive
- Confident
- Conflict Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Cooperative
- Courteous
- Crisis Management
- Critical Observer
- Critical Thinker
- Customer Service
- Deal Making
- Deal with Difficult Situations
- Deal with Office Politics
- Deals with Difficult People
- Decision Making
- Dedicated
- Delegation
- Dependable
- Design Sense
- Desire to Learn
- Disability Awareness
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Awareness
E - G
- Effective Communicator
- Emotion Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empathetic
- Energetic
- Enthusiastic
- Ergonomic Sensitivity
- Establish Interpersonal Relationships
- Experience Dealing with Difficult Personalities
- Experience
- Facilitating
- Flexible
- Follow Instructions
- Follow Regulations
- Follow Rules
- Friendly
- Functions Well Under Pressure
- Giving Feedback
- Good at Networking
- Good at Storytelling
- Good Attitude
H - O
- High Energy
- Highly Organized
- Highly Recommended
- Honest
- Independent
- Influence/Persuasive
- Innovator
- Inspiring
- Intercultural Competence
- Interpersonal
- Interviewing
- Knowledge Management
- Leadership
- Listening
- Logical Thinking
- Make Deadlines
- Management
- Managing Difficult Conversations
- Managing Remote Teams
- Managing Virtual Teams
- Meeting Management
- Mentoring
- Motivated
- Motivating
- Multitasking
- Negotiation
- Nonverbal Communication
- Organization
P - R
- Patience
- Perform Effectively in a Deadline Environment
- Performance Management
- Perseverance
- Persistence
- Persuasion
- Physical Communication
- Planning
- Positive Work Ethic
- Possess Business Ethics
- Presentation
- Problem Solving
- Process Improvement
- Proper Business Etiquette
- Public Speaking
- Punctual
- Quick-witted
- Read Body Language
- Reliable
- Research
- Resilient
- Resolving Issues
- Respectful
- Respectable
- Results Oriented
S - U
- Safety Conscious
- Scheduling
- Self-awareness
- Self-directed
- Self-monitoring
- Self-supervising
- Selling Skills
- Sense of Humor
- Stay on Task
- Strategic Planning
- Stress Management
- Successful Coach
- Supervising
- Take Criticism
- Talent Management
- Team Building
- Team Player
- Technology Savvy
- Technology Trend Awareness
- Thinks Outside the Box
- Time Management
- Tolerant of Change and Uncertainty
- Train the Trainer
- Trainable
- Training
- Troubleshooter
V - Z
- Value Education
- Verbal Communication
- Visual Communication
- Well Groomed
- Willing to Accept Feedback
- Willingness to Learn
- Work Well Under Pressure
- Work-Life Balance
- Writing Experience
- Writing Reports and Proposals
- Writing Skills
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