Strengthening your soft skills

Soft skills are personal attributes that relate to how you interact with others and your ability to contribute to a positive work environment.

While hard skills are critical for getting hired, soft skills are just as important for career success and advancement. Soft skills encompass a wide range of personal qualities, such as effective communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability - These are skills that you can develop throughout your secondary school journey, such as during lessons, CCA and school-based activities. 

You may learn more about how to develop softs skills here.

• In terms of post-secondary education, a time when you will need to demonstrate your soft skills is during interviews - You may need to attend an interview as part of Early Admissions Exercise to ITE or the Polytechnics, DSA to the JCs or to enroll into The NAFA Foundation Programme.
  Here are some useful guides for you to prepare for interviews and reflect on the strength of your soft skills: 

Growing your hard skills

Hard skills are specific abilities that can be taught and measured, often relating to technical proficiency in a specific field. Hard skills are important for gaining admission to post-secondary educational institutions and, in the future, are critical for getting hired for a job.

You can build hard skills through your subject lessons and through self-directed learning.

Here are some useful websites that you may use to do so:

• Republic Polytechnic Microlearning Course Marketplace

• https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=free

• https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free