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    A skill is the ability to perform a task with determined results, often within a set time period or amount of energy. Skills can be divided into domain-general skills that apply broadly, like time management, and domain-specific skills only useful for certain jobs. People need a variety of skills to contribute to the modern economy, including both hard skills relating to specific tasks and soft skills involving personality traits like communication and empathy.

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    A skill is the ability to perform a task with determined results, often within a set time period or amount of energy. Skills can be divided into domain-general skills that apply broadly, like time management, and domain-specific skills only useful for certain jobs. People need a variety of skills to contribute to the modern economy, including both hard skills relating to specific tasks and soft skills involving personality traits like communication and empathy.

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    A skill is the ability to perform a task with determined results, often within a set time period or amount of energy. Skills can be divided into domain-general skills that apply broadly, like time management, and domain-specific skills only useful for certain jobs. People need a variety of skills to contribute to the modern economy, including both hard skills relating to specific tasks and soft skills involving personality traits like communication and empathy.

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    Skill

    For other uses, see Skill (disambiguation). 3 People skills


    Mastery redirects here. For other uses, see Mastery
    (disambiguation).
    Main article: People skills

    A skill is the ability to carry out a task with pre-


    According to the Portland Business Journal, people skills
    determined results often within a given amount of time,
    are described as:[4]
    energy, or both.[1] Skills can often be divided into domain
    general and domain-specic skills. For example, in the
    domain of work, some general skills would include time understanding ourselves and moderating our re-
    management, teamwork and leadership, self-motivation sponses
    and others, whereas domain-specic skills would be use-
    ful only for a certain job. Skill usually requires certain
    environmental stimuli and situations to assess the level of talking eectively and empathizing accurately
    skill being shown and used.
    People need a broad range of skills in order to contribute building relationships of trust, respect and produc-
    to a modern economy. A joint ASTD and U.S. Depart- tive interactions.
    ment of Labor study showed that through technology, the
    workplace is changing, and identied 16 basic skills that
    A British denition is the ability to communicate ef-
    employees must have to be able to change with it.[2]
    fectively with people in a friendly way, especially in
    business.[5] The term is not listed yet in major US
    dictionaries.[6][7]
    The term people skills is used to include both psycholog-
    1 Labor skills ical skills and social skills, but is less inclusive than life
    skills.
    Main article: Skill (labor)

    Skilled workers have long had historical import (see 4 Social skills
    Division of labor) as electricians, masons, carpenters,
    blacksmiths, bakers, brewers, coopers, printers and other
    Main article: Social skills
    occupations that are economically productive. Skilled
    workers were often politically active through their craft
    guilds.[3] Social skill is any skill facilitating interaction and
    communication with others. Social rules and relations are
    created, communicated, and changed in verbal and non-
    verbal ways. The process of learning such skills is called
    socialization.
    2 Life skills

    Main article: Life skills


    5 Soft skills
    Life skills are problem-solving behaviors that are used
    appropriately and responsibly in the management of Main article: Soft skills
    personal aairs. They are a set of human skills, acquired
    via learning (teaching) or direct experience, that are used Soft skills are a combination of interpersonal people
    to handle problems and questions commonly encountered skills, social skills, communication skills, character traits,
    in daily human life. The subject varies greatly depending attitudes, career attributes and emotional intelligence
    on societal norms and community expectations. quotient (EQ) among others. [8]

    1
    2 9 EXTERNAL LINKS

    6 Hard skills
    Hard skills are any skills relating to a specic task or situ-
    ation. These skills are easily quantiable unlike soft skills
    which are related to ones personality.[9]

    7 See also
    Communication skills
    Deskilling
    DISCO - European Dictionary of Skills and Com-
    petences
    Dreyfus model of skill acquisition
    Game of skill
    Online skill-based game
    Transferable skills analysis
    Procedural knowledge

    8 References
    [1] Howland, J.L. (2013). Facts101: Textbook Key Facts.
    Contents Technologies Inc.. Retrieved 2015-10-03. This
    tertiary source summarizes another source in low detail.
    [2] ASTD and U.S. Department of Labor study -Retraining
    50 Million Americans: The Electronically Mediated So-
    lution. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
    [3] Cowan, Ruth Schwartz (1997), A Social History of Amer-
    ican Technology, New York: Oxford University Press, p.
    179, ISBN 0-19-504605-6
    [4] Rifkin, H. Invest in people skills to boost bottom line
    Retrieved on 2009-10-14
    [5] Macmillan Dictionary Retrieved on 2009-08-18
    [6] Dictionary.com denition. Retrieved on 2009-08-18
    [7] Encarta dictionary denition. Retrieved on 2009-08-18
    [8] Marcel M. Robles, Executive Perceptions of the Top 10
    Soft Skills Needed in Todays Workplace, Business Com-
    munication Quarterly, 75(4) 453465.
    [9] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hard-skills.asp

    9 External links
    American Society for Training & Development
    Australian National Training Authority
    NCVERs Review of generic skills for the new econ-
    omy
    SKILLS EU Research Integrated Project
    3

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