8 most in-demand soft-skills for your career

According to a latest report in CNBC, 93% of employers want to see these 8 soft skills on their prospective employee's resume. We will discuss where can we learn these skills and how can we possess those skills to excel in our career.

These have been unavowed skills which most recruiters expect to see in a resume. It plays a critical role in their decision about whom they want to roll out a job offer.

In this article, we will discuss about these soft skills which includes a wide array of abilities. But is there any data which backs the above statement that these are really important skills to possess and mention in the resume as well. Let's look into these 8 soft-skills and how many jobs has them listed in their requisites.

Here are the top skills, and number of jobs posting has them as a requirement:

**Were you aware that millions of jobs needs these soft skills? You can share your thoughts in the comment section.

**Data Courtesy: CNBC.

1. Communication Skills: We are in a new world where our communication is regulated by the new remote and hybrid work arrangements. How you responded to someone's email makes a lot of difference now than it did before Covid-19?. It is no longer the same. If you have already seen these presentations, you must have noticed how much we should know about the art, etiquette and techniques to have an effective communication. If you haven't, check this out - Hassan Osman - best selling author and PM leader @Cisco teaches how to avoid common errors, improve interaction within teams, clearly explain exactly what you want, and get better responses from senior management and team members. That will make you a real influencer in your organization.
2. Customer Service Skills (CSS): Why is it important, if you are just a product developer or a Quality engineer? Here are common five reasons why it is important for you to have the skills of a customer service professionals?

• Being involved in customer service lets the product developers see the bigger picture.
• Product developers can provide a higher level of customer service. It in turn improves revenue.
• Being better at Customer Service in turn enhances your coding, product development and design skills.
• Customer service skills provides you with that extra window through which you can be exposed to various other aspects of the business.
• You get a morale boost and also revamp your creative skills when you get better at customer service.

Well you might now ask where can I achieve Customer Service Mastery without actually joining the customer service team. Glad you asked, I found those answers at one place here.

3. Scheduling: It is among the most important backbone components of many workflows. If you feel that your Scheduling skills are going to benefit your next company, it is your duty to get them properly noticed by a recruiter.

• Concept estimation
• Finance, financial management, accounting basics, capital budgeting, negotiation and presentation design.
• Billing
• Procurement Management
• Contract Management
• WDI Planning, KPI, Metrics
• Cost Control, Estimating, Budgeting

On top of that most CEOs, founders, SVPs and SMTs, CXOs use Microsoft Project for their day-today tasks. Kudos if you already use it often.

4. Time Management: I believe everyone knows the importance of Time management. However, if we apply the rule #wdkwwdk, I found I had so much gap in understanding Time management and this book opened up my eyes for that.

5. Project Management: Mike drop! If you haven't already took a formal training on project management, you should! One good source I took is this introduction.

• Perform a?complete Project Cases Study, learning what a Project Manager must do from the beginning until the very end.
• Understand the fundamental project management theory, apply best practices and avoid common mistakes in your next project
• Learn?Agile?project management, SCRUM and other popular methodologies.

Get promoted and apply what you learn from that article to the real business world, regardless of the industry.

6. Analytical Thinking: A must in these era. Business needs people who not only can do their job being asked to, but promote those members who regularly contribute to the business with their analysis about the complete situation. It is a skill which is highly rewarded.

7. Work Independently: A definite skills, where you can be an independent contributor, and if needed adept the skills for playing a role in a team event as well.

8. Flexibility: For example, you are a data scientist who is very good at writing Artificial Intelligence or Machine learning code and program a mathematical model for a problem statement. It has been also observed that 80% of the data scientist would struggle initially to deploy their hard-work in the production. Why? It is where flexibility and slight change in attitude matters a lot in today's work culture. A data scientist should know how to deploy a AI/ML model or tweak a DevOps/MLOps process to be able to deploy and maintain an application in production. This skill applies to both technical and non-technical positions you must be holding.

Thank you for reading this article. If you are looking for how to add these skills into your resume, please feel free to put that in the comment section.

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Courtesy: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/in-demand-soft-skills-to-put-in-your-resume.html