Meaning of skill is the
ability to do something well; expertise. Example: "Difficult work, taking
great skill".
In other words, skill is defined as “An ability and capacity acquired through
deliberate, systematic, and sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively
carryout complex activities or job functions involving ideas (cognitive
skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills)”.
TYPES
OF SKILLS:
A. Hard Skills
B. Soft Skills
A. Hard skills are
teachable abilities or skill sets that are easy to quantify (express or
determine).
Examples of hard skills
include:
1. Proficiency in a foreign
language,
2. A degree or certificate,
3. Typing speed,
4. Machine operation and
5. Computer programming.
B. Soft Skills are
subjective skills that are much harder to quantify (express or determine). Also
known as "people skills" or "interpersonal skills,"
soft skills relate to the way you relate to and interact with other people.
Examples of soft skills
include:
1. Teamwork,
2. Communication,
3. Flexibility,
4. Patience,
5. Time management and
6. Motivation.
LIST OF
SKILLS FOR RESUMES
1. Analytical Skills
2. Behavioral Skills
3. Communication Skills
4. Customer Service Skills
5. Entrepreneurial Skills
6. Interpersonal Skills
7. Leadership Skills
8. Management Skills
9. Organizational Skills
10. Social Media Skills
11. Teamwork Skills
12. Personal Skills
13. Technical Skills
14. Financial Skills
15. General Skills
16. Hard Skills
17. Writing Skills
18. Soft Skills
1. Analytical skills are skills relating to
the ability to look at and figure out problems. Someone who has analytical
skills can take a problem and figure out the whole issue with no problem.
2. Behavioral skills deals with how you
interact within your own organization and with other members of the human
resource to include external individuals that involves your organisational work.
3. Communication skills are the abilities
a person has to efficiently correspond and converse with others. Communication
skills include clear speaking, audible tones and other strong speech skills.
4. Customer service skills are vital to an
organization because satisfied customers will refer more business to you. Some
of the basic customer service skills include listening, courtesy and proper
communication skills. Others include your ability to apologize and empathize
with the customer as well as being available when the customer s requires you.
5. Entrepreneurial Skills:Entrepreneurs
tend to start ventures that build on specific skills they've already developed
and knowledge they've already acquired in a certain occupation or industry, for
example, auto repair. But all entrepreneurs tend to share other, more general,
skills such as communication, team-building, and creative-thinking skills.
6. Interpersonal skillsare the ways we
relate and communicate with each other. People that lack interpersonal skills
find it difficult to be social and express themselves to others effectively.
7. Leadership Skills: The leader is always
here for his employees. He helps them, manages them and treats them with
fairness. One of the most important skills is setting goals, observing
progress, rewarding good behavior and reprimanding negative actions.
8. Management Skills are the qualities and
experience a person possesses that allows them to provide good leadership and
organization to a group or company. These skills are vital to large
corporations.
9. Organizational skills are obtained in order to provide organization for oneself.
10. Social Media Skills: Public relations are known for
their proactive attitudes, perseverance in pitching the media and the ability
to build relationships as well as their great oral and written skills. These
are all important KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities) you need to be successful
in public relations.
11. Teamwork Skills: The ability to work effectively with
others on a common task, taking actions which respect the needs and
contributions of others, accepting the consensus and negotiating a win-win
solution to achieve the objectives of the team.
12. Personal skills refer to the ability to manage your
personal reactions to responsibilities and challenges in work and life. This
involves managing your time and adapting to changing situations.
13. Financial skills are important due to a number of
reasons. One of the reasons is that it helps you in budgeting where you
allocate your personal income towards expenses, savings and debt repayment. It
also helps you in making financial decisions and also in saving and investing.
14. General or transferable skills are skills that are
applicable to a wide range of functions and span a variety of industries and
sectors.
Key general skills that are valued by employers include:
*Communicating effectively
*Maintaining a positive and friendly attitude
*Delivering reliable service
*Developing good customer relationships
*Resolving problems
*Leadership
*Teamwork
*Planning and organization.
15. Hard skills are specific teachable abilities that are
required in a given setup or context such as a university application or a job.
Examples of hard skills include typing, proficiency with software applications
and calculus among others.
16. Writing skills are the abilities a person has to apply
to their writing. Writing skills can include knowing proper structure, using
grammar and spelling correctly, and being able to write in a concise, clear
manner that is easy to read and understand.
17. Soft skills refer to an individual's Emotional
Intelligence Quotient (EQ). These skills comprise of personality traits,
communication, temperaments and social graces.
WHY YOU NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON
MORE ON SOFT SKILLS?
In short, soft skills are
increasingly becoming the hard skills of today's work force. It is not enough
to be highly trained in technical skills, without developing the softer,
interpersonal and relationship-building skills that help people to communicate
and collaborate effectively.
These people skills are more
critical than ever as organizations struggle to find meaningful ways to remain
competitive and be productive.
Teamwork, leadership, and
communication are set of ideas by soft skills development. Since developing
these skills is very important for training and development.
The major drawbacks in
interviews where candidates fails to clear all interview rounds is basically
due to Listening, Seeing, Reading and Writing(LSRW).
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Finally My Question: (HR Round)
IN CASE YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO PARTICIPATE IN FREEDOM FIGHT IN
FUTURE? WHAT YOU WILL DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY?
Freedom Fight means economic conditions…..etc.
Please come up with good answers……
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