The relational skills, human or personal are also known under the name of “soft skills” or “soft skills”. They are added to the “hard skills” which include all your technical knowledge of a trade. Human resources naturally attach importance to these two types of skills, but recruiters are focusing more and more on the famous soft skills of the candidates to guarantee that they will be able to integrate easily and quickly into a team already in place.

Listening skills, communication skills, conflict management, and the ability to generate enthusiasm are just a few examples of transversal skills that may appear on a curriculum vitae. But how should we add human skills to a CV? We answer this question through our examples and expert advice.

What is a relationship skill?

As mentioned above, these are by definition the personal and human skills possessed by a candidate, as opposed to professional skills which cover the technical aspect. Soft skills, therefore, include emotional and behavioral skills as well as the candidate’s communication skills. These skills are also often listed in job vacancies published by employers and this is not without reason. Indeed, the recruiter must be able to ensure that the candidate will “stick” to the culture of the company.

To give you a more precise idea of the subject, we suggest you discover below some examples of interpersonal skills.

• The ability to work in a team
• Relational ease, whether with clients, colleagues, or superiors
• Ease of speaking in public
• The ability to motivate a team
• Listening and understanding
• Sense of persuasion

Our tip: when you register a human skill in your resume, you need to be sure it fits you. Indeed, if you get the first interview, the recruiter will undoubtedly check it as well as your ability to talk openly about it and to argue it.

How and where to place the interpersonal skills in the CV?

Soft skills have taken more and more place in the curriculum vitae of candidates. A few years ago, these hardly found a small place in the CV. Today, they should be felt through this document because they can make a real difference when making the decisive choice made by the recruiter. However, the main purpose of the CV is all the same to provide information on professional and academic background and skills should not take the upper hand.

Three possibilities are available to you to place your personal skills in a relevant way in your curriculum vitae.

• At the beginning of your CV: Under the title or the hook of your CV, you can easily place your soft relational skills. In this way, they are quickly visible to the recruiter and they have a prime location in your document.
• Under your professional experiences: When you describe a position you have held in the past, you have the possibility of adding relational skills in this description. The main advantage of choosing this location in the CV is that they are placed in a very concrete context. On the other hand, they are a little less highlighted than in the other locations.
• An insert provided for this purpose: Whether it is an insert placed on the side of your CV or at the bottom of the page, this technique is also effective because these personal skills are thus highlighted clearly and conspicuously.

Now that you know where you can place this information, you will have to write it down. Indeed, it is not enough for you to make a simple endless listing of your personal skills, but to put them in a situation with concrete facts.

We offer you two concrete examples to fully understand the effective method to integrate these skills.

Mistakes not to make

We have listed for you the mistakes to avoid when talking about inserting skills in a CV.