Employment Skills and Workplace Rules

Job Skills

What are they?

What is a job skill

Job-specific skills are those abilities that allow a candidate for
employment to excel in a particular job. ... The skills that are
needed for a specific job are also known as a skill set. When

hiring, employers will usually include the skill set required to be

able to perform the job in the job posting

Soft Skills Versus Hard Skills

Soft Skills

●Skills that let you interact well
with someone as part of a job.

Hard Skills

●Skills that can be observed,
defined, and measured; skills
that let you do a job

Open Ended

What do those skills mean to you?

Open Ended

What are some hard skills (skills of the job) that you do at your job?

Soft Skills Versus Hard Skills

Soft Skills

●Communication-Talking

●Work under pressure-doing
work when you have a lot to
do

●Decision-making: making the
right choice

●Time management: using
time correctly. Keeping hours

●Self-motivation: pump
yourself up, feel good about
yourself

Hard Skills

●Typing-writing on a laptop or
typewriter

●Writing-words down on
paper/electronic so they can
be seen by others

●Counting money-when you’re
buying something

●Taking a phone
call-emergency, orders

Soft Skills

Conflict Resolution: Talk it out

Leadership: Taking charge, being
a good model, setting goals, being
truthful

Problem-solving: figure it out,
either with others or by yourself

Teamwork: ability to work
together with other people

Creativity: thinking differently,
outside the box

Hard Skills
Cleaning: office, hospital, stadium; making
sure that it is safe and clean
Math: cashier, counting money, products
Operating equipment: hospital, machines,
machines for making food/other things like
tools (like paint or paintbrushes)
Planning/event planning: brainstorming,
scheduling (plan more rather than less)
Marketing: Advertising, making a flier,
getting people’s attention for a product
Bookkeeping: keeping a record of people or
things (also money)

Pick one in each group you think is important

Communication
Ability to work under pressure
Decision making
Time management
Self-motivation
Conflict resolution
Leadership
Problem-solving
Teamwork
Creativity

Typing
Writing
Counting money/change
Taking phone calls
Cleaning
Math
Operating equipment
planning/event planning
Marketing
bookkeeping

Open Ended

Based on the image, Rank the top 3 answers.

Open Ended

Of the three that you choose, which was the most important and why?

How do you communicate?

What type of communicator are you?

Texter

• You are always on the move- too busy to speak

Networker

• You like being with people and you want people to know what you're doing.

Caller

• You are an old-fashioned communicator who enjoys speaking to people.

Poll

What type of communicator are you?

• I like talking more than writing.

• I get most of my news through social media.

• Email takes too long.

• It"s cheaper to speak to someone directly.

• All my social media accounts are linked.

Posture

Open Ended

Why is it important to be aware of how we present to others, particularly in the work place?

Open Ended

What are some examples of negative non-verbal communication?

Open Ended

What are some examples of positive non-verbal communication?