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Do you think a candidate with strong hard skills but weaker soft skills still will be doing well at your company?

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Question added by Fida Abo Alrob , Sr. Copywriter , Imena Digital
Date Posted: 2015/02/15
Deleted user
by Deleted user

Yes why not, i believe a person can surely perform well if he is good in hard skills and wealer in soft spoken skills as we say it.

 

however a person can grow the skills but depends on personal enthusiasm and commitments.

If a person is committed and has goals in life, he can surely work harder to get better in what you call hard skills as per your query and simultaneously learn to improvise soft skills

 

Islam Fawzy Abdel-haleem
by Islam Fawzy Abdel-haleem , Human Resource Section Head , Fathalla Market Group

This depends on the job specification and position

VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN
by VENKITARAMAN KRISHNA MOORTHY VRINDAVAN , Project Execution Manager & Accounts Manager , ALI INTERNATIONAL TRADING EST.

A candidate with strong hard skills....... I think to some extend such people are essential to an organization...some work patterns are specially meant for them without which the work won't move.

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

I would say yes a person can do with hard skills, generally it's not easy without soft skills but depends on the job description.

70%  to 95% of certain jobs is communication such as project manager but not everybody will do sales, PR, management and legal representative.

 

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by Deleted user

Should a balance in both with clear vision

aamir mumtaz
by aamir mumtaz , HR & Admin officer , Human Appeal International Pakistan

Well its more about nature of the job! A computer programmer or a web developer might be the best even if they have weak soft skills. But a person working as PR officer or an HR Manager can never survive if they don't have soft skills.

Despite saying all, i still believe that if you have good soft skills you are always a step ahead of the ones only having hard skills.

 

 

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by Deleted user

Because of the fact that something about73% of all what we do in our life depend on Soft Skills and Social Competences, that93% of all our decisions depend on our Emotions I would say "NO"! Hard  or Cognitive Skills are important for sure but the quality of our relations is the most important "Skill" in business and private life. As better we manage our relations as better we manage our business and/or private life.

Kathy Mustafa
by Kathy Mustafa , Personal Assistant to CEO- Managing Sales and Marketing Departments , Saudi Kinda Real Estate

While certain hard skills are necessary for any position, employers are looking increasingly for job applicants with particular soft skills. This is because, while it is easy for an employer to train a new employee in a particular hard skill (such as how to use a certain computer program), it is much more difficult to train an employee in a soft skill (such as patience). 

 

 

It also depends on the company and your position. If the position requires you to just do manual data entry then soft skills would probably not be that important as hard skills will  be. 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

I do not think he can survive with hard skills only. Such employee will not be able to communicate with others with hard skills only.

Satish Koottala
by Satish Koottala , Accountant , City Diamond Contracting LLC

It depends... If his work requires more cordination from other department then he should have soft skill

or else... If he has some sought of work where he can do it alone and no much interaction then ok.

Emad Mohammed said abdalla
by Emad Mohammed said abdalla , ERP & IT Software, operation general manager . , AL DOHA Company

I think he can , add to that he might learn by the time if he get the chance.

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