Soft Skills

SOFT SKILLS

Let’s talk about soft skills which are highly essential for an individual to survive at all the choc-a-bloc job interviews. Skills are basically the abilities of a person to complete any given task. So skills are of various types. For instance, a person who applies for a job or attends an interview has to acquire some skills which puts him out of the crowd attending the same. Technical skills or hard skills are the most basic requisites for an individual in his field of occupation to satisfy its needs. Apart from hard skills soft skills are more than required for a person to survive his job, profession, occupation or whatever.

Soft skills are those transferable skills or say professional skills which only few select individuals acquire. But these soft skills are need of the hour for each and every individual aspiring for a job at reputable organizations or big corporate houses as to say. These skills are complete personal as they are less related to your qualifications and profession and more to your personality, your intuition, your character etc. It is also a way by which a company or an organization filters the candidates who walked in for the interviews. Communication, self-motivation, leadership, responsibility, team work, problem solving, decisiveness, time management, flexibility are some of those soft skills which are required to be able to prove yourself in a competitive job environment.

Let’s analyze the above-mentioned skills -

COMMUNICATION: Communication is the first and most important requisite for an individual to mingle and socialize with people around and to be able to speak up his/her mind.

SELF MOTIVATION: Self-motivation is one of the skill where one needs to motivate self at times dealing with high work pressure or the other way where one has to compete and contribute.

RESPONSIBILITY: An individual working with an organization needs to be highly responsible with his both words and actions which affect or benefit self and organization as well.

TEAM WORK: When working with diverse people you need to have the ability to work in groups or say involve in team works which increases the output of the given task. Also team work enlightens and exposes oneself to diverse minds and conditions which in turn contributes to your growth.

PROBLEM SOLVING: Problem solving is also one major factor and a skill required for the job survival.

TIME MANAGEMENT: An individual who manages his/her time efficiently has more advantage than any other person who doesn’t. So managing time effectively and efficiently is the most important factor and a skill to be acquired.

DECISIVENESS: Decisiveness is a skill to make or take decisions quickly and effectively.

FLEXIBILITY: The one who is flexible is more needed for an organization. Here flexibility is what makes a person to fit in any given situation or adapt to any circumstance occurred.

Finally, to conclude all of this, I opine that one has to acquire soft skills to put themselves above all in a work environment. I would also state an example of doctor’s profession where a doctor has all the professional and technical knowledge to write, prescribe, explain, perform or whatever but the one who has emotional intelligence, social skill to attract and articulate patients is a true doctor in my sense. Welcome them with smile, ask them with love, treat them with care is what all matters as a soft skill.

By now, you should’ve understood what soft skills are, in brief. Thank you.

- Yashwanth Gollapalli