Hard and Soft Skills

Soft skills are...

• The technical skills you need to complete specific tasks.

• The attributes and behaviours that describe how a person approaches their tasks.

Adaptability

• Hard Skill

• Soft Skill

Having a set of key soft skills will make

• you more likely to be fired.

• you more employable and successful.

• you harm your job prospects.

In most cases, employers prefer to hire

people with

• hard skills.

• no skills.

• soft skills.

An example of a soft skill would be

• teamwork.

• communication.

• All of the above

Soft skills are

• not easily taught or learned.

• easily taught and learned.

• None of the above.

An example of a hard skill, would be

• teamwork.

• being able to use a computer.

• people skills.

Having the right skills, will make you more

employable.

• True

• False

Almost all soft skills are transferable, thus, are

sometimes called “transferable skills.”

• True

• False

There is not a shortage of opportunities to learn soft skills. Instead, in many cases, people are afraid to challenge themselves.

• True

• False