Soft skills: Difference between revisions

'''Soft skills''' are a combination of [[people skills]], [[social skills]], [[communication skills]], [[personality traits|character or personality traits]], attitudes, career attributeattributes,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/business/careers/students/identifying_your_skills_and_attributes|title=Identifying your Skills &amp; Attributes|publisher=|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref> [[social intelligence]] and [[emotional intelligence]] quotients, among others, that enable people to navigate their environment, work well with others, perform well, and achieve their goals with complementing [[hard skills]].<ref>[http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-24WFCSoftSkills1.pdf Workforce connections: Key soft skills that foster youth workforce success], [[Child Trends]], June 2015</ref> The [[Collins English Dictionary]] defines the term "soft skills" as "desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include [[common sense]], the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/soft-skills|title=the definition of soft skills|publisher=|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>