Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (featuring Paul Barnhurst) arguing that hard skills are necessary to obtain a job but soft skills and attitude determine promotion and long-term success. Speakers emphasize that technical competence can be taught if attitude and soft skills are present, while lacking soft skills can cost someone their job.
You are hired by your hard skills and you are fired by your soft skills. You can't teach hard skills for someone, but soft skills, sometimes it's really hard for the company to manage them to.
A certain degree. The hard skills are just expected. We all have to do some level of modeling, excel, understanding, accounting. If you don't have the basic technical skills, then you should be spending some time developing them. But what really allows you to be strategic to be a business partner is all those soft skills. It's become so clear to me talking again and again to guests. Attitude and soft skills to me are the key. You have to be to do the technical. But give me the soft skills and the attitude and I'll hire that person. Teach them technical as long as they're willing to learn. Your technical skills get you your first job, your soft skills get you promoted. Kind of same idea.
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