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Add a technical or computer skills section

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Add a technical or computer skills section

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- Listing your technical or computer skills may or may not be necessary depending upon the type of job you're applying to. The technical skills or computer skills section is especially helpful to administrative, operational or technical people. You're taking those one at a time. If you are an administrative support person, you know how important it is to know specific word processing, software, photo editing software, and operating systems. I once spent months searching for an administrative support person who knew how to use QuickBooks, a PC and a Mac, much more difficult than you might think. At first, I was ignoring resumes that didn't specifically state they knew how to use the Mac iOS. And then I realized that no one was bothering to include it on their resume. So I had to call people and ask them. That wasted a lot of my time. And for the lucky person that did include it, they immediately got a call from me.…

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