Survey Says: Soft Skills Matter to Employers
February 4, 2015
By Kristen Harris We’ve been hearing a lot about the “skills gap” lately, where employers have a tough time finding qualified candidates even as a sizeable number of unemployed people struggle to find jobs. Now the debate has moved on to look at “hard” and “soft” skills. Hard skills are the specific manual or cognitive skills you need to do the job. They’re a measurable ability to perform the task at hand in an excellent manner. This is what most of us learn in post-secondary education or a training program,
