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I want to write an essay with the title “Difference between Hard Work and
Smart Work”.

  * By “hard work”, I mean continuing the work with old ideas without thinking up new ideas, and working all the time to solve a problem.
  * By “smart work”, I mean innovating new ideas and trying to solve a problem within a short period of time.

Would 「重労働とスマートな仕事の相違点」 be the correct way to express this in Japanese?
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How do I write "Hard Work and Smart Work"?
No. スマート does not mean "smart". It means "skinny". Your sentence means totally
different thing. Actually, it is not clear what "skinny jobs" mean.

I do not know exactly what you intend, but if you are comparing physical labor
and labor that requires intelligence, it is `肉体労働と頭脳労働の相違点`.
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I would make it into カタカナ and add parenthetical explanations:

> ハードワーク(非効率的な働き方）とスマートワーク（効率的な働き方）の違い

**EDIT** My original translation was based on the English "Difference between
Hard Work and Smart Work", which are using two buzzwords, not the sentence
`The Difference Between Working Hard and Working Smart`.

"Hard Work" means work the requires a lot of effort in English, so if you use
"Hard Work" to mean something different, you have to add and explanation.
Also, "Smart Work" is a buzzword which can mean different things.
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[重労働](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E9%87%8D%E5%8A%B4%E5%83%8D&dtype=0&dname=0na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=08718800)
usually means “hard _physical_ work,” so it is not appropriate here unless you
are talking about physical work. Also, some people may have difficulty
understanding what スマートな労働 means at all, because
[スマート](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88&dtype=0&dname=0na&stype=0&index=10015400&pagenum=1)
used to mean “slender” instead of “smart.” (But this may not be a big problem
anymore because it seems that the latter meaning is becoming more popular
recently, as in スマートフォン and スマートカード.)

I might translate the title as 懸命に働くことと賢く働くことの違い, but I am not good at
translation.
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"to work hard" and "to work smart" I think can be expressed with 懸命に取り組む and
要領よく取り組む.

The corresponding nouns would be 懸命に取り組むこと and 要領よく取り組むこと.
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