Positive character trait
Kindhearted
Naturally sympathetic and willing to help.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Helps people who cannot return the favor, often before they ask.
- Speaks gently to someone who is embarrassed, frightened or slow to understand.
- Stops for a stranger in trouble, a lost child or a stray dog, when it would be easy to walk on.
Fits when a person's goodwill appears in gentle and helpful treatment of others
Not when pleasant manners conceal indifference or avoid a necessary hard truth
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: it describes a person's nature, not a work result, and claiming it on paper sounds odd. Show the support you gave others, or let a reference say it.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is kindhearted: in [team or setting], they were the one who [helped a new colleague or a struggling client] without being asked, and people sought them out for it.
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Report card comment [Name] is kindhearted and gentle with younger children, and is often the one who helps when someone falls or loses something.
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In a story, shown not told The old woman at the bus stop was counting her change for the third time. He paid both fares and sat at the back so she would not feel she owed him a conversation.
The kindhearted neighbor brought groceries and stayed to fix the broken latch.
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