Lesson #4

Knowing your audience, who are recruiters, in this case, matters while we are trying to get a job in a sea of candidates competing for the same profile. Recruiters look for technical skills as well as soft skills:

1. Being a people person.
2. Having emotional intelligence.

Writing is one of the tools top performers use to improve themselves. It has less to do with publishing and more with:

• Better self-discipline
• Improving persuasion skills
• Cultivating self-awareness
• Better

Emotional intelligence has become an important predictor of job success, surpassing technical ability. In 2011, a CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,600 U.S. hiring managers and human resources professionals revealed that 71 percent valued emotional intelligence in an employ...