At present in India to get hired after the
college, soft skills are essential. Learning soft skills will help you succeed
in your initial career after college. And, because soft skills are portable
(unlike most hard skills), you can take them with you in the likely event that
you later change careers. Most career specialists say the average worker today
can expect to change careers at least once during his or her lifetime. In fact,
some 25 percent of workers today are in occupations that did not even exist a
few decades ago. If a software engineer decides to change his/her career and
work for a construction company, he needs to master a whole new set of hard
skills. But the soft skills he’s mastered are the same ones that will help him
shine in his new career.
Some students think, “All I need for success at work is the special knowledge of my chosen career.” All that teachers need, they believe, are good teaching skills. All that accountants need are good accounting skills. All that lawyers need are good legal skills. These skills are called hard skills, the knowledge needed to perform a particular job. Hard skills include knowing where to insert an intravenous feeding tube, how to write an effective business plan, and what the current inheritance laws are. These are the skills you’ll be taught in courses in your major field of study. They are essential to qualify for a job. Without them you won’t even get an interview.
But, most people who’ve been in the work world a while will tell you this: Hard skills are necessary to get a job but often insufficient to keep it or advance. That’s because nearly all employees have the hard skills necessary to do the job for which they’re hired. True, some may perform these skills a little better or a little worse than others, but one estimate suggests that only 15 percent of workers who lose their jobs are fired because they can’t do their job. That’s why career success is of ten determined by soft skills. As one career specialist put it, “Having hard skills gets you hired; lacking soft skills gets you fired.”
Some students think, “All I need for success at work is the special knowledge of my chosen career.” All that teachers need, they believe, are good teaching skills. All that accountants need are good accounting skills. All that lawyers need are good legal skills. These skills are called hard skills, the knowledge needed to perform a particular job. Hard skills include knowing where to insert an intravenous feeding tube, how to write an effective business plan, and what the current inheritance laws are. These are the skills you’ll be taught in courses in your major field of study. They are essential to qualify for a job. Without them you won’t even get an interview.
But, most people who’ve been in the work world a while will tell you this: Hard skills are necessary to get a job but often insufficient to keep it or advance. That’s because nearly all employees have the hard skills necessary to do the job for which they’re hired. True, some may perform these skills a little better or a little worse than others, but one estimate suggests that only 15 percent of workers who lose their jobs are fired because they can’t do their job. That’s why career success is of ten determined by soft skills. As one career specialist put it, “Having hard skills gets you hired; lacking soft skills gets you fired.”
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