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Workplace Readiness Skills. Chattahoochee Technical College, Adult Education. Soft Skills. A bilities and traits that pertain to personality, attitude, and behavior A re not formal or technical knowledge
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Workplace Readiness Skills Chattahoochee Technical College, Adult Education
Soft Skills • Abilities and traits that pertain to personality, attitude, and behavior • Are not formal or technical knowledge • 75% of long-term job success depends on soft skills. In fact, the most sought after and hardest to find skills in the market today are soft skills.
Examples of personal attributes • Time Management • Showing up to work on time • Integrity and Honesty • Personal Appearance and Hygiene • Works with diversity • Listening • Willingness to help
Communication • The corner stone: (non-verbal) body language • Posture • Facial Expression • Eye Contact: cultural • Gestures • Head Motions
Next Steps Videos, group activities, handouts for exercises to practice Interviewing Techniques Dressing for Success, Create your brand Implementing GeorgiaBEST https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/
Questions The CEOs tell us, ‘Don’t worry so much about the technical skills…We need you to teach them how to show up on time, how to work in teams, how to take supervision.”