Soft Skills

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SOFT SKILLS
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DEFINITION
Soft skills are termed as interpersonal skills
and personality traits that make a person
successful in his job place. It only creates a
positive and functional work environment but also
makes the organization highly competitive. They
must not be mixed with hard skills. While, hard
skills are described as technical skills that
define a persons ability to perform a specific
task, whereas, soft skills let that person retain
his job.  Listing soft skills in your resume and
demonstrating them in your interview will open
new doors of opportunities. 
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Top soft skills which are highly in demand 

• Below is a list of some of the top soft skills
  which are highly in demand in every job sector. 
• Communication
• Leadership 
• Decision Making
• Team Work 
• Time Management 
• Creativity and Problem Solving 

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• Communication
• Strong communication skills include verbal
  communication, non-verbal communication, and
  written communication. 
• Developing them will let you clearly and
  precisely express yourself, listen to your
  customers' grievances, and build long-lasting
  relationships with your clients. 
• Leadership
• Leadership as a soft skill means that a person
  vests in himself the ability to grow within the
  organization and lead other employees in the
  organization too. 
• It encompasses the ability to encourage peers,
  accommodates their needs, resolve conflicts, and
  cultivate the organizations culture in future
  employees. 

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• Decision Making  
• Decision making as a soft skill infers making
  well-thought decisions after weighing its pros
  and cons. 
• It doesnt mean taking hasty decisions rather
  choose among the possible solutions to a problem
  either through an intuitive or reasoned process. 
• Teamwork 
• Possessing teamwork as a soft skill infers the
  ability to carry out the work in collaboration
  with others that not improves the quality of work
  but also results in prompt completion of the
  task. 
• Working in a team also develops the acumen
  knowing when to be a leader and when to be a
  listener. 

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• Time Management   
• Inculcating time management skill states working
  productively in a smart way. 
• It lets you manage your time effectively so that
  all the important tasks get completed within the
  assigned deadline. 
• Highly valued by the employers, it also let the
  employees work under the pressure. 
• Creativity and Problem Solving 
• Employees with problem-solving skills tend to
  more reliant and self-dependent. 
• They possess the ability to analyze the causes
  of the unwanted situation, generate a set of
  alternative interventions to achieve the end
  goals, evaluate the best solutions, implement the
  best plan, and assess effectiveness. 

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Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace  

• Gone are those days when the employers just focus
  on honing the product knowledge of the employees.
  However, in todays competitive era, every
  organization takes initiative in offering soft
  skills training to the employees that not only
  benefits the organization but also results in the
  overall development of the employees.
• Below are the indispensable objectives of soft
  skills 
• Improves customer service 
• Mitigates the risk 
• Augments the employees' productivity 
• Encourages collaboration and accumulation of
  multiple ideas for the effective and efficient
  completion of the work. 
• Let you hone presentation skills, networking
  abilities, and etiquette awareness that can go a
  long way to help you win new clients and gain
  more work from existing ones. 
• The development of teamwork, communication, and
  time management will smoothly deliver results and
  help you gain confidence thus positively
  influencing your personal life

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Statistics surrounding Soft Skills 

• Research conducted by Harvard University states
  that 85 percent of job success comes from having
  well-developed soft skills while only 15 percent
  of the jobs come from technical and hard skills. 
• The labor analytics firm Burning Glass analyzed
  millions of U.S. job postings and found that one
  in three skills requested in job postings is a
  soft skill. Even in the most technical career
  areas such as IT, Healthcare, and Engineering
  more than a quarter of all skill requirements are
  for soft skills. 
• In a 2017 paper, Harvard professor David Deming
  reported that jobs with high social-skill
  requirements are on the rise. 

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How to Acquire Soft Skills

• Like any other skills, soft skills too need to be
  developed among the new hires. It not only
  impacts the professional life but also positively
  influences the personal life too.
• As an employer or the content developer, develop
  an engaging soft skill course.
• Never impose rather create engagement so that
  learners automatically adopt this teaching. 
• Incorporate Learning Management System that
  enlists courses on communication, collaboration,
  problem-solving, creative thinking, etc. 

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Conclusion 
Every organization irrespective of their sector
is highly considering the dire need of soft
skills. The incentives and rewards it offers are
limitless. It has come to the light that by 2030,
soft skills will account for two-thirds of all
jobs. Therefore, make your workplace a better and
more productive environment.  
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