Employer Expectations- Soft and Hard Skills Review

What are soft skills?

• They are the personal attributes you need to succeed in the workplace.

• They are specific, teachable abilities that can be defined and measured.

• They refer to the working environment and all existing circumstances affecting labor in the workplace, including job hours, physical aspects, legal rights and responsibilities.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Personal attributes that describe an individual's ability to interact with others are

• Hard Skills

• Soft Skills

Specific teachable abilities that can be defined and measured are

• Soft skills
• Hard skills

Soft skills are also called: (check all that apply)

• transferable skills

• people skills

• social skills

• employ ability skills

The ability to be counted on refers to which soft skill ...

• Being non-augmentative

• Ability to solve problems

• Being dependable

• Being flexible

Which of the following defines employability?

• A specific style of behavior in the workplace

• Positive work behaviors and personal qualities which make individuals more likely to gain employment and succeed in their chosen career

• Arriving at work on-time and successfully completing the tasks assigned

• Recognizing the questions which relate to goals, purpose and needs

Hard Skills are

• Skills specific to the job

• Skills that are learned through life experiences

• qualities and abilities you need for most jobs

• characteristics of a persons appearance

Reading, writing, mathematics, listening, and speaking are classified as _____ skills.

• Soft Skills

• Foundation Skills

• Hard Skills

• Transferable

Skill is defined by the ...

• ability to perform a task due to training and experience.
• potential a person has for learning a skill.
• activity one likes to do.
• skill you have already developed.

Soft skills are

• easily learned

• not desired by employers

• personal and people skills

• all of the above