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Soft skills are dead—long live ‘skills’

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David Rothkopf : Hard skills account for 15% of a person's ability to succeed at work.

He says the other skill set, which matters more, is often called “soft skills’s” These include technical know-how and mastery of the tools and platforms of their trade.

Rothpf: We have good ways of measuring the former, so why not develop reliable metrics for the latter? We see soft skills as intangible qualities.

Employers need to prioritize soft skill training, says Nacho De Marco .

De Marco : Soft skills are situation-dependent and can’t be mastered through training software or instruction manuals alone.

He says soft skills are what really makes someone succeed in the increasingly demanding, ever-evolving workplace reality.

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80

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14

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informal

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English

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47

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