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.

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