Have you ever wondered why people who have less or not even
minimum technical skills are hired
but not those who have sound technical
skills? There are many points the recruiters consider, one of them could be
their soft skills.
Why soft skills are
so important?
Let us first see which skills are considered as soft skills
in general perspective…..
1.
The ability
to communicate with people effectively, communication is the key to get
hired, as you progress in your career or even if you are at the basic level you
need to communicate with different people they could be from front desk people
to anybody at the manager level or if it’s a start up or tiny firm may be there
would be a need to even communicate with firm’s CEO. So, communication skills play an important role to get you hired.
2.
Problem
solving ,plays an important role as many recruiters at the time of
interview try to analyze how do you respond to particular situation by posing
different questions and try to put you under pressure, they want to check how
well you can handle a situation, even if you don’t have the least idea about
it.
3.
Adaptability,
as the technology is emerging every day you need to keep yourself updated with
the latest trends related to your field. Adaptability at your work place is
also expected.
4.
Teamwork,
you can call it even cooperation but it’s one of the key aspects which should
be maintained as an employee moves forward in career. Working collaboratively
with team also determines how he can work with different from people from
different backgrounds.
Importance of soft
skills:
One needs to
be good at these basic skills to climb the corporate ladder as these are the
key skills even if you have technical
skills these soft skills play
important role to get you job placement.
People with only Technical skills will be able to survive in the team but
people with soft skills along with technical skills will have more chances to
make path in the corporate industry. Organizations are looking for people who
have good soft skills and people who can maintain good relation within the
organization and with its clients. If you are a fresher or experienced you just
need to have these skills if you want to have a career growth in the IT sector.
Not only in corporate sector in any sector you have to posses these skills to
be successful. Most people especially fresh graduates lack these soft skills
definitely they have good technical skills but not good soft skills. So, from
their college days they themselves have to inculcate these skills so that they
don’t have to face rejections in job
placements after they graduate.
Difference
between Technical skills and soft skills:
Technical
skills are those skills which you learn in your college or at training
institutes which provide you only with technical knowledge related to your
field for e.g. you are a software developer you will be having technical
knowledge related to software programming like C#, ASP .NET, Java or Hadoop
etc. If you are into testing you will be having technical knowledge related to manual
testing or automated testing these technical
skills vary depending on your profession.
Along with these technical skills you need to have soft
skills because when a recruiter has to choose between a person with sound technical skills and sound soft skills he will prefer person with
good soft skills. Soft skills come
to your rescue when you need to explain a non technical person some complex
technical problem which is one of the main things which recruiters are looking
to provide job placement.
So, it is better to
be prepared before hand by taking soft
skills training or by practicing them so that you don’t need to rush at the
last moment.
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