Hard Skills
- Importance rating for success - 15%
- Academic Qualifications
- Expertise
- Work Experience
Soft Skills
- Importance rating for success - 85%
- Attitude for learning
- Motivates
- Values
- Adaptability
How can soft skills be acquired
- Discover more about your personality, strengths and weaknesses and commit to creating a plan of action to address them
- Practise presenting yourself - Your appearance and personality are as important as your knowledge about theories and concepts
- Practice active listening, paraphrasing - pay attention to the rules of conversation; take notes to aid your understanding
- Think big and practice your creative and innovation skills
- Improving awareness skills reading and comprehending information
- Remain positive - try to learn something from every experience
Characteristics of Soft - Skilled Individuals
- Strong work ethic
- Positive Attitude
- Good Communication skills
- Time Management skills
- Problem Solving skills
- Acting as a team player
- Self confidence
- Ability to accept and learn from criticism
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Working well under pressure
Characteristics of successful engineering leadership
- Believable
- Dependable
- Trustworthy
- Accountable
- Integrity
- Effective
- Consistency
- likeability
all above will turn into Credibility
Hemant Gor, Compiled from Gulf News www.gnads4u.com/jobs
