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Top 5 Soft Skills Employers Seek

As important as hard skills, soft skills are becoming evitable elements that leverage working process as well as its outcomes. Thus, knowing what soft skills employers seek and strengthening them would help you stand out from a long list of candidates.

By Thu VoPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Top 5 Soft Skills Employers Seek
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While hiring employees for certain vacancies, employers have always expected to see different personal attributes that are beneficial in delivering working tasks and growing their businesses. Although there are more-than-five skills that are required by employers depending on the essence of the vacancy and the organisation, there are five essential skills that employers constantly look for amongst several sectors.

Curiosity - Eagerness To Learn

Businesses are full of unknown areas that are needed to explore willingly and on the initiative. As there are coming more of non-anticipated scenarios in working life, employers highly expect to see the eagerness to learn from their employees. The curiosity of unknown areas or unknown experience, as if it is triggered in the working place, will cultivate the fearlessness of mistakes, creativity and growth mindset.

Curiosity refers to:

  • The will to embrace new experiences, unknown areas and diverse situations.
  • The will to take risks to discover new knowledge and information that might be skyrocket innovation for a business or not beneficial at all.
  • The maintaining of positivity and openness to opportunity to learn.

Problem Solving

The modern working environment has perpetually changed, bringing to the businesses more of unexpected situations. In these such of scenarios, employees are expected to enter working place with problem-solving attitudes. Candidates who are able to showcase problem-solving ability are more likely to welcome challenges and handle well when they come.

Problem solving refers to:

  • The will and ability to identify problems and their causes.
  • The will and ability to explore alternative solutions.
  • The maintaining of positive, resilient and solution-oriented attitudes.

Teamwork

It is required much more in nowadays working environment the team-player spirit towards different tasks. No matter what sector you are in, possessing an ability to work in a team is definitely your competitive advantage as there is no one existing alone in this World, and the success of a business or of any individual is always built on, more or less, the bond with others.

Teamwork refers to:

  • The will and ability to be open with different or even opposite points of views at organisational or personal level.
  • The will and ability to cooperate well with others, using individual skills and talents to end up finding constructive solutions.
  • The will and ability to differentiate personal and professional lives, neutralise and resolve conflicts, and support others in different tasks.

Interpersonal Skills

Employees might present themselves as a person who are not proficient in communicating with others and stick to the uselessness of training their interpersonal skills as they believe it is not part of their work. In fact, interpersonal skills are highly demanded in the working place alongside with teamwork or in the communication with business stakeholders. Interpersonal skills are not only included in interacting tasks, but in every aspects of life.

Interpersonal skills refer to:

  • The will and ability to read other people signals verbally and non-verbally.
  • The ability to interpret those signals accurately in order to, firstly, understand the partner's ideas and emotions, and secondly to form a corresponding response.

Resilience

At all time, employers have always expressed their appreciation to potential candidates within their resilience. It is because there are unavoidable existence of stressful situations in the working place. Employees who showcase their resilience at work are more likely to stay emotionally intelligent even when they are in force to step out of their comfort zone. Thus, an ability to perform well under huge pressure is endlessly demanded.

Resilience refers to:

  • The will and ability to live and cope with stressful situations.
  • The will and ability to overcome their barriers of, e.g. patience.
  • The maintaining of calmness, positivity, professional attitudes towards customers, colleagues and employers.

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About the Creator

Thu Vo

Currently International Project Officer at Design Centre MUOVA (Finland). I have been immerged in different kinds of development projects. Writing is my leisure activity, with which I hope to connect with the wider public around the world!

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