Employable Skills

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

• Soft skills

• Hard skills

• None

Employers prefer soft skills over hard skills because?

• They are easier to teach

• Soft skills are things that cannot be taught and include manners

• None of these choices

Soft skills are

• are not desired by employers

• easily learned

• personal and people skills

Transferable skills are

• similar to soft skills

• skills that can be transferred to multiple jobs

• skills that are not learned

Hard skills are

• referred to as technical skills

• always difficult to learn

• often referred to as transferable skills

Skills can be defined as abilities that

• you learn only at work

• you are naturally good at

• you learn over time

True or False The most important skills that employers are looking for are considered soft skills.

• True

• False

True or False Soft skills are easily measured and observed.

• True

• False

True or False Computer programming and driving are examples of soft skills.

• True

• False

True or False Hard skills are more easily identified, observed, and measured than soft skills.

• True

• False