Socio-emotional skills are perhaps one of the biggest and most difficult soft skills to tackle.
It refers to your ability to communicate effectively and work with others to resolve conflicts and be a team player.
Socio-emotional skills examples:
- Active listening — being able to listen to and understand what others are saying.
- Empathy — being able to sympathize with someone else’s experience.
- Collaboration — being able to effectively work with others to achieve a common goal.
According to our research, these are the three soft skills that make jobseekers most employable to companies. Caribbean jobseekers should therefore focus on emphasizing these skills on their resumes.
You can do this by adding a section that highlights your key skills and achievements, such as professional certifications, software or hardware you are proficient in using (e.g. Microsoft Office, etc.)
If you’re uncertain, you can also enlist the help of professional resume writers or career coaches. Some of these services can be provided locally through employment groups or even government initiatives.
Or, you can use an online service like The Career Doc, which is based in the Caribbean but operates completely digitally to offer Caribbean jobseekers the most convenient professional assistance.