hello welcome to the channel fun online teaching and learning and of course another video on soft skills i'm glad to see you back here in the channel this video is going to make an introduction to soft skills which are very crucial skills but at the same time most people neglect to improve their soft skills and learn about them once you completed this video you will realize that our awareness and your awareness about soft skills will be increased and you're going to look for more resources on how to use and improve your soft skills so in this video i want to have a discussion with you about hard skills and soft skills in general please feel free to comment below and to join our discussion and share your own experiences about hard skills soft skills how they helped you find jobs and during your interviews you will also find the discussion about the differences between a race car and a race car pilot and a hiker also you're going to perform an activity on your own which is called swot analysis and also you will learn about yourself more here's my agenda for today discussion on hard skills and soft skills what are they good for and what are they what is the difference between a hiker and a race car and race car driver and which one are you do you know yourself enough map your personal swat analysis and this will be an activity that you're gonna do on your own during the uh this is the first uh session of the series of videos that i'm gonna record on soft skills so please feel free to watch the following and and next videos as well to improve your knowledge and skill please feel free to contribute and join the conversation by commenting below and also bring your experience and share share your experiences with us be mindful while you're doing that because uh you know the viewers are all from different countries religion background and expertise so please respect to diversity when you are doing that there will be some videos during the presentations on slides i'm gonna put and provide their links in the description below because of copyright issues please subscribe and turn on notification to be informed from my next videos and to increase your knowledge about soft skills here are my references that i used during my preparation for this presentation i have utilized and read a lot of books and some of them are textbooks some of them are um guides but all of them have some sections about soft skills and hard skills and i kinda merge them all for you in a nutshell all right so let's start a discussion on what what is hard skills okay please comment below and join the discussion by defining it how how would you define hard skills when you say hard skill when you hear the word hard skills what do you understand what does make you feel what are they please write a few of them for example is java programming in java is a hard skill is knowing how to fix a bike's tire hard skill okay think about all the hard skills and also think about if they are important and why they are important i'm pretty sure you have a lot of hard skills that you learn in university in your education your job on job trainings and what you're doing you know whether you'll be an expert an engineer or a plumber or a main car maintenance guy or a builder i'm sure you have some hard skills so let's discuss why are they important uh i think the most amazing discussion can be on where did you learn it where do we learn our hard skills universities schools through education like formal education where do you learn them and think about your transcript does your transcript show any soft skills all or all of them are hard skills okay think about it where did you learn your hard skills now as we provoked a little bit thoughts on soft hard skills now think about it how did it go did you find any art skills that you have where did you learn where did you learn them or is there a gap in your knowledge and practices now you we talked about hard skills let's talk about soft skills the same things how can you define soft skills when i say soft skills what do you understand right what does make you feel what are they what are they is writing an email as soft skills is communicating or presenting a slide or making a presentation in front of an audience is a soft skill what are they do you think they are important do you think hard skills are more important than soft skills or soft skills are more important than hard skills and why or do you think they they are the same what kind of soft skills do you have let's think about those okay and think about where did you learn soft skills check your transcript okay your high school transcript your university transcript do you see any soft skills classes think about it where did you learn it because you you wrote down that you have some of them where did you learn it family friends neighbors okay now you thought about soft skills and hard skills how did it go is there a gap in your knowledge do you know what is soft skills what are hard skills if you find a gap in your knowledge and practices if you think you're not really sure about what is soft skills probably you're sure about what's hard skills right because that's our day-to-day basis we hear it we try to learn it we get tested on them but probably you found some gaps on your gaps in your knowledge and practices in soft skills okay this video is going to make an introduction to soft skills and will explain why are they important and why are they good for so now let's close this gap so you know we have hard skills and we have soft skills right okay good so what are some other names for hard skills have you ever heard any other names that we use instead of hard skills okay yeah i hear some of you are writing and saying technical okay yeah hard skills are also called technical skills how about soft skills i'm just gonna give you a hint it's also called human skills what else are they called how do we name it some of you may have heard interpersonal skills transferable skills mmm that's strange why do we call it transferable skills to soft skills but not hard skills okay how about people skills soft skills sometimes are called as people skills and also lift skills why do we call it lift skills let's let's let's uh think about why why is soft skills named this way right so we usually we see in the soft skills we see people who recognize the word human interpersonal so it's kind of implied that it is you know human to human right and transferable and lift skills i'm gonna come back to them later but how are we learning soft skills our universities teaching little soft skills maybe to some degree but when you check your transcript you will not see any soft skills isn't that strange some of some of the universities some of the schools they assume that you already learned it you know if you are in the university they they assume that you learn in high school right but we will talk about how you can get gain these experiences for soft skills okay but the truth is soft skills are although they call how soft they are hard truth okay and we will discuss about it why soft skills look soft but they are actually hard to read of modern age so let me explain some popular cliche to discuss okay hard skills will get you an interview and soft skills will get you a job probably you heard this before okay our skills will get you an interview and soft skills will get you a job some other cliche hard skills you may have seen this as hard skills would get your job soft skills will make you keep the job okay so we need hard skills and soft skills right that's what it looks like you will be hired for hard skills and you will be fired for soft skills maybe you are not really familiar with this one this is a phrase from a ceo a company you will be hired for hard skills and will be fired soft skills so make sure you also you are also aware of your soft skills that you need soft skills alongside with your hard skills and they will make you keep the job get the job or not be fired okay but the discussion here is i want to make with you hard skills are developed at the expense of soft skills what does that mean while learning hard skills probably you're neglecting soft skills because hard skills are tested you have assignments you get you know exams you gotta do some hands-on ex hands-on applications of something but soft skills are not really tested right it's kind of neglected by people and by institutions as well so but we need to make a good balance of both of them okay so if we need to you know if we have one day to improve our soft skills going to a webinar or if you have one day to learn you know another trick in programming probably people will prefer hard skills right because it looks like an easy gain but in the long term actually we are you know developing that new programming piece at the expense of soft skills this doesn't mean that you know hard skills or more soft skills are more important than hard skills it's not that but we need to balance how we learn and how how we can improve both so that's a big discussion please comment below if you have any discussion on that one and i'm gonna continue with the next video for the next uh for the continuation of the introduction section for the soft skills thank you and please subscribe and turn on the notifications to be informed about the next video thanks