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In case of hiring potential employees as per employer’s job requirements, employers always
look for a balance of hard skills and soft skills of candidates for their best selection.
For example, employers value skilled workers with a track record of getting jobs done on time.
Employers also value workers with strong communication skills and a strong understanding of
company products and services. When communicating with prospective clients, workers with
soft skills can put together compelling presentations even if their specific job is not in sales or
marketing. Another valued soft skill is the ability to coach fellow co-workers on new tasks.
Any manager or leader often is most effective when they have strong soft skills, like having
good speaking abilities, listening to workers, disseminating, human and conceptual abilities.
Workers can acquire their core hard skill through formal education, training programs, and
concentrated effort. Hard skills are the quantifiable skills that workers need to have to
perform a specific job successfully. Employers often test or evaluate a candidate’s hard skills
before hiring, but soft skills are the qualities, that will help employees to apply their hard skills
more effectively and efficiently with a synergetic team work.
How well you interact and treat others is crucial for job achievement and career success. Soft
skills flourish positive interactions and relationships, and productivity increases od employees.
Although not customarily acquired through formal training, soft skills can be learned. To
improve soft skills, class room interaction, training and mentoring can provide tips and
strategies for developing better practices, and practicing can strengthen areas where soft skills
deficiencies exist.
This lecture session is to highlight the basic critical learning areas of soft skills that will need
further training and coaching to help improved interpersonal and human skills. This lecture
session will cover the following topics:
Communication skill, verbal and no verbal
People Management: Relationship and networking
Collaboration & Teamwork with synergic benefit
Conflict Resolution, inter and intra group
Managing Change, working as change agent
Presentation skill and Professionalism.
Emotional Intelligence, enthusiasm and attitude.
Critical thinking and problem solving.
Top Ten Soft Skills Employers Seek in Candidates