Positive personality trait
Amiable
Friendly, pleasant, and good-natured.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Gets along with nearly everyone in a group, including people who do not get along with each other.
- Takes a small inconvenience, or a joke at their own expense, with good humor.
- Keeps a pleasant tone through a long meeting, a crowded kitchen or a slow line.
Fits when someone has an agreeable manner that makes companionship pleasant
Not when agreement comes from avoiding every difficult subject
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: a pleasant temper is not a result, and on paper the word can read as pleasant but easily led. Show the working relationships it helped, such as a team kept together or a difficult account kept, and 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 amiable and easy to work with: in [team or setting] they got along with everyone, and [a difficult handover or a crowded project] went more smoothly because of it.
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Report card comment [Name] is good-natured, gets along with everyone, and takes small disappointments with a smile.
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In a story, shown not told The two brothers had not spoken in a year, and both had come to the barbecue. He handed one a plate, asked the other about his tomatoes, and by dessert they were arguing about fertilizer instead of each other.
Her amiable presence softened the awkward first minutes of the reunion.
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