Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills – Difference and Importance

Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills – What’s the difference and is one more important than the other to your career success?  In my recent articles – What are Soft Skills and List of 28 Soft Skills, I offered detailed definitions of soft skills.  Here I want to highlight three key differences between hard skills and [...]

When and How to Use a Headhunter

When and how to use a headhunter are common questions and good ones to ask early in your career.  Before we can talk about when and how to use a headhunter, it is important to understand what are headhunters and the different types that exist What are headhunters? Headhunters (aka recruiters) are independent recruiting professionals [...]

How to Deal with HR – Friend or Foe?

HR (Human Resources) is an interesting function of a company. To most employees, HR is just a support function – not friend or foe.  How to deal with HR in most cases is simple – submit a request and get their help.   We may even have very good feelings toward HR if all the interactions (getting benefits, [...]

Five Qualities of A Good Mentor

We all need good mentors to help guide us in career and life.  Not all mentors are created equal.  There are five qualities a good mentor should have: someone you respect in the area you want mentorship on – this requires you to know in what area you want mentorship.  for example, if you want [...]

List of 28 Soft Skills – Business Professionals

I saw a list of 60 soft skills that was ranked #1 organically by Google  (search = list of soft skills.)  The article was pretty good, but the actual list of 60 soft skills is quite confusing.  Here is what I mean.  The list included: Ridiculous examples like Drivers’ License (#16), Being Drug Free (#21), [...]