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How to List Adjacent Skills on Your Resume
Most job seekers make a fatal error in their skills section: they list only the exact hard skills from the job description. This episode explores why that approach fails when hiring managers scan for adjacent capabilities and how to strategically include transferable competencies without diluting your core message. We examine a specific case of a marketing manager who successfully pivoted to product operations by reframing her analytics experience as strategic forecasting, and we break down the 'adjacency matrix' method for identifying which secondary skills actually signal high…
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