What is the difference between soft skills and hard skills?

·         Hard skills are the essential, required skills needed to perform a job. They include learned skills and training related to your career or profession. Hard skills are considered tangible skills because they're easily identified and measured with things like tests and exams. When writing a resume or applying for a job, it's essential that you convey hard skills to your prospective employer, such as schooling, degrees, training and certificates.

·         Soft skills are essentially interpersonal or people skills. Although soft skills can be observed easily in people who are effective leaders and communicators, they're not as easily measured. Therefore, soft skills are considered intangible. However, whereas hard skills can't cross every job description or industry, soft skills are universal. As you move from job to job or industry to industry, soft skills are portable. They're the people skills needed to be successful when working with co-workers, customers and clients.

·         Examples of hard skills include technical, mechanical, administrative or accounting skills. These are the skills that require knowledge of computers, writing, speaking a second language or operating a machine. On the other hand, soft skills can be broken down into three categories: skills that allow you to interact well with co-workers and clients, such as networking, communication; skills that demonstrate work ethic and professionalism, like appropriate dress, enthusiasm and motivation; and critical thinking and problem solving skills. Other soft skills that employer’s value include self-esteem, self-control, time management, effective decision-making and efficient task prioritization.

·         Hard and soft skills both play different and important roles within your career. Hard skills are what will spark an employer's attention and get you an interview, while soft skills will help you advance once you're part of the company. One of the bigger mistakes an employee can make is neglecting his soft skills. Soft skills also help management separate potential leaders from other contributors in the company.

To be a successful professional, we need to have to have a combination of such skills, usually by soft skills we consider;

- Communication skills.

- Attitude.

- Team work etc.

Well, when it comes to hard skills it is usually link with the specific professioanl in which we are like sound IT or programming skills, sound accounting skills to full the basic job or knowledge about IR or HR topics to be successful profession.

Any individual with good technical skills and combining it with ability to present his ideas or  work through soft skills will lands him to a great job.

Soft skills are the skills which require more mental efforts. Hard skills are the skills which require more physical efforts.

Hard skills can be learned in school and from books , examples of hard skills include math, physics, accounting, programming, finance, biology, chemistry, statistics

Soft skills are self management skills and people skills where the rules changes depending on the company culture and people you work with. Communication Skills , Teamwork skills , Presentation skills , Management Skills

Hello HANNA SABA!

First of all, I want to say that your question is really a very important question and thaks for that.

Hard skills and soft Skills:

Well, as you already know, during the job application and interview process, employers look for applicants with two skill sets: hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are teachable abilities or skill sets that are easy to quantify. Examples of hard skills include:

• Proficiency in a foreign language
• A degree or certificate in one field
• Computer and IT skills
• Machine operation
• Computer programming
• And etc…

These hard skills are often listed in your cover letter and on your resume, and are easy for an employer or recruiter to recognize

Soft skills, on the other hand, are subjective skills that are much harder to quantify. Also known as "people skills" or "interpersonal skills," soft skills relate to the way you relate to and interact with other people. Examples of soft skills include:

• Teamwork
• Communication
• Flexibility
• Patience
• Time management
• Motivation
• And etc…

I hope that is helpful.

Best Regards.

hard skills are related to proffesional knowledge,tools that allow us to work within our profession.Eg:desigh a building,software develepmentSoft skills are the complete collection of our social, communication, and self-management behaviours. Eg: behaviour,positive attitude

soft skill is intelligence oriented & hard skill are acquired

Soft skills are built-in/inherent.  e.g., Courage

Hard skills are acquired. e.g., languages

Soft skills is a term associated with a person's "EQ" (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize relationships with other people.

Hard skills is a technical skill, not one that is interpersonal.

Hard skills are the technical skills whereas soft skills are self skills and it needs to be develped by personal means.

I agree with Mr. Mohammad Tohamy answer, an example of that is software engineer and hardware engineer