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ammonb

Well, I think that "Be enthusiastic" is the most important soft skill advice :)

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Blake Schwartz

I think this is true in 99.9% of cases; however, last year in rare honest feedback from an interview with a large (fortune 100) company I was told that I came across as “too enthusiastic”... which was a bit of a shock since I usually receive the opposite response. So again, it does depend on the interviewers but generally you’re probably better off going with enthusiastic.

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simonhaisz

must...resist...urge...to...make...pedantic...reply...

beingenthusiasticisademeanernotaskill

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Blake Schwartz

Let me just up the pedantry ante one more notch...

It’s “demeanor”, not “demeaner” 😉

Generally speaking, I would tend to agree- however, in terms of interviewing I would say being “enthusiastic”/“passionate” are definitely skills/buzzwords that can check a lot of boxes if you do them the right way. So in that sense, I think they also qualify as skills in this particular arena.