Employability Skills Review

Skills can be defined as abilities that:

• you are naturally good at

• you learn over time

• you learn only at work

• all of the above

Soft skills are

• easily learned

• not desired by employers

• personal and people skills

• all of the above

Hard skills are

• always difficult to learn

• often referred to as transferable skills

• referred to as technical skills

• none of the above

What type of skills are normally the most important to employers?

• Hard skills are the most important

• Soft skills are the most important

• No skills are important

• All skills are important

Transferable skills are

• always soft skills

• always hard skills

• the worst type of skills to have

• all of the above

Employers prefer soft skills over hard skills more often because

• hard skills are note easily learned on the job

• soft skills are more easily learned on the job

• soft skills are not easily learned on the job

• none of the above

Which is not an example of hard skills?

• Typing

• Writing

• Mathematics

• Leadership

Which is not an example of soft skills?

• Reading

• Leadership

• Communication

• Empathy

Soft skills are easily measured and observed.

• True

• False

Hard skills are more easily identified, observed, & measured than soft skills.

• True

• False