Soft Skills: A Key to Success in Work

Soft skills today are being more and more popular than hard skills since they (soft skills: read) are considered as the high standard of job requirements in the job competitive market. While hard skill is easily isolated since it can be learned rather than soft skills. A soft skill refers to the cluster of personality traits, social graces, facility with language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that mark each of us to varying degrees. Persons who rank high in this cluster, with good soft skills, are generally the people that most employers want to hire. Soft skills complement hard skills, which are the technical requirements of a job. The ideal, of course, is someone strong in both job and personal skills (https://www.cco.purdue.edu/Articles/Article-SoftSkills.shtml)
Some articles retrieved from internet map out that soft skills are the key to gain a success in work. For illustration, courtesy and language are urgently required in negotiating the project/ tender. To win the project, the negotiator should discuss in such polite coutesy/ business ettiquete and of course a good language. Imagine if you only have hard skill, it is mostly impossible to conquer the situation.
Frankly speaking, more references recite that soft skills can't be gainned or altered just in a short time since those are built trough the early childhood and family environment. Therefore, no special school are needed in bilding these characters.
How do we know the application of soft skills in real workplace? Here are the illustrative soft skills in workplace:

• Accustom to say thanks, excuse me, may I help you? and greets wherever you are (workplace: read) when you meet collegues, guests, supervisors, and customers.
• Obey the regulation on the workplace by doing assignment given well. On other words, come to the workplace with good motivation to do assignment. Indeed, try to adapt to the regulation made, such as: wearing the uniform, coming on time, speaking with good tone, voice, vocabulary, and preferred culture.
  
• Work in team is necessary important since it help you to share responsibilities, give comment on one's work, help others, and improve your assignments.
• Build self-dicipline and self-confident, don't be afraid to learn from the mistakes, asking what you really don't know, learn from experience, and taking comment and criticism forwarded to us welcome.
• Acquire language proficency. Here, acquiring language is a hard skill, but how you use them in the appropriate situation (including, word choice, tone, and politeness) is a soft skill.

Does it sound easy or difficult for us to do? Everything doesn't seem impossible if you wanna try and try to apply soft skills in your work life. Only the time will answer it since soft skills can't be acquired just a night, we need an extra effort to achieve them. Staring now, try to evaluate yourself and what soft skills should be possed by you yourself.