Sunday, 9 March 2014

The Important of Soft Skill for Graduate


What are soft skills???

Before we are going any further on discussing about the important of soft skills for graduate, let's us starting with the basic on term of "soft skill". What exactly the meaning of "soft skill".According to the online "Wikipedia" gives a definition that soft skill refer to the cluster of personality traits,social graces, facility with language , personal habits, friendliness and optimism .Soft skill complement hard skills, which are one of the requirements of a job nowadays.



Some examples of soft skills.










communication skill




                       problem solving







creativity

                        integrity



critical thinking

                                      teamwork






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     work ethic          time management









Nowadays, a Bachelor or Masters degree will act as a passport to a dream job for graduate.Unfortunately, employers want more from employees not just qualification with the flying color.What are really want are good amount of 'soft skills'.According to Debbie Hance of Association of British psychologists, "There's a saying that hard skills will enable you to perform well in academic and interviews, but your soft skills get the job from you".

In a workplace,graduate must quickly to make a decision but the important is must gathering all the important fact,seeking advice from seniors,and being aware with all consideration.All these thing going to make a good decision.Then,employers want graduate more dependable, reliable, enthusiastic and enjoy their work.Graduate who are able to step outside from their comfort or safe zone and try on something that their have not done before is really have a good asset because employers love people the very positive and multitasking people.The ability to apply both logic and creativity to solve problem is very valued by the employers.If graduate kind of person who are try to fix the problem so their will stand in a good stead.Team work means a good team player has their own goal in their mind and work as a team in order to achieve it.They have to be open and honest and also give a constructive suggestions otherwise listen to others explanation.

Soft skills are very important to increase the graduate's attitude to learning, motivates themselves,core values and can adapt with every single situations in a workplace.Because their must challenging themselves to submit the report or task before the deadline.Can the graduate put in their focus in a short period of time to achieve the result than the employer expectation?.Employers lookout the graduate who put their pride in work and confident enough in their work.When the thing go wrong , do not pass the buck because everyone make a mistake and that how the graduate react and learn in the workplace.








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