Hard skills & Soft skills
Is working at Chick-Fil-A as a chef a hard skill or a soft skill? Why so?
Hard skill! This requires learning, and practicing. You don't want a burnt chicken sandwich!
You're an interviewer, the person you're interviewing shows up late and comes in wearing their pajamas and smells like a skunk! Would you like to hire them? If not, why would you not want to hire them?
No! How you dress or act can impact on how someone sees you. If you dress wearing your pajamas everywhere people can see you as lazy. You don't want that at job interviews!
Does your attitude affect on how someone sees you as a person? Why so or why not?
Yes! If you have a positive attitude people will most likely enjoy being around you. If you have a negative attitude, no one would want to be around you.
True or False: Communication is choosing to not talk to others and doing it on your own. Why?
False! Communication is sharing your thoughts and listening to your peers thoughts.
You're in a group project working, would you mostly use hard skills or soft skills? Why?
Soft Skill! Communicating, leadership, teamwork, etc are all very important when it comes to group projects!
Your interview starts at 9:00AM, should you wake up at 8:45AM or 7:30AM? Why?
7:30AM! This gives you time to make sure you're prepared and ready. Not rushing out the door and getting stuck in traffic while you're combing your hair because it looks ratchet!
You just arrived to get your food, as you tell the worker your order they start throwing your food together and have a rude tone to their voice. Positive or negative attitude?
Negative attitude
What skill is used when working together to get assignments done and communicating with others.
Teamwork!
Do most workers success come from hard or soft skills? Why?
Soft skills! Soft skills are used in almost EVERY job, hard skills are only in some jobs but not as much as soft skills are.
True or False: do interviewers hire prepared, professional, etc interviewees? Why?
True. Interviewers want to hire the best interviewees so their business goes well and doesn't go down hill because a employee decided that they had enough.
Do interviewers look at your attitude? Why?
Yes. An interviewer does not want to hire someone with a negative attitude, that could impact their business.
Who would you like to do the group project with? Partner A: Doesn't get any work done, gets distracted easily. Partner B: Focused, communicated, sets goals to get work done. Why would you not want to work with the other partner?
Partner B. Working with Partner A would be very difficult to get things done and to get a good grade on the project.