Soft skills and hard skills should be deployed in the correct proportions by brands that amazingly want to boost their marketing drive, unfortunately, however, this is not the case with most organizations. They tend to tilt more towards hard skills and this is their Achilles heel. Soft skill is a personal trait that boosts situational consciousness and intensifies an individual’s capability to get a job accomplished. We use the term soft skills to encompass all those attributes that denote people’s skills or emotional intelligence. They are quite different from hard skills, which are used to describe an individual’s technical know-how to carry out a specifically-defined assignment, soft skills are widely germane across job titles and industries. It does not boil down to overemphasizing the fact that with your hard skill prowess you can quite often land interviews but you definitely need soft skills to scale through the interview and also perform your duties effectively. The fact that soft skills have been found to be very essential to boosting marketing drive has made a lot of business executives and leaders are to place a priority on these attributes when hiring employees. They have been found to be highly essential for the…
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IoT: 2020 is The Year of Radical Change For Workers
Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Who would have believed the possibility? Who thought it would come to pass? Who foresaw the impact IoT is having on our day to day activities? Today, the impossible is happening. You can now talk to your phone just the same way you talk to your friends. You can give instructions and have meaningful discussions with your refrigerator. Your watch was more of an ornamental you used to tell time but not anymore. IoT and advancement in technology have radically changed that fact, you can now use it to track your heart condition, know where to go, send emails and texts, and carry on discussions with your friends. Our personal devices are playing very effective roles in our daily activities, thanks to the amazing transformation brought about by IoT. Some few years back, this would have sounded unbelievable and pure magic, but it’s the reality today. So, why won’t you capitalize on this in 2020? IoT is set to bring a massive turn around in how we work and you can’t afford to be left behind. Here are a few ways IoT will affect your work in the year to come and beyond: No…
3 Best Ways You Can Use to Hire Content Writers
Writing is an inborn trait that comes naturally in the form of scribbling. However, the world has witnessed many incredible writers from different genera such as William Shakespeare, J.K Rowling, and Jeff Goins — a big name in content writing — who have used writing as a communication medium. Clearly, there are many types of writings. In this internet era where everything has gone online, however, content writing has gained a huge attention. Today, people write online and instantly get noticed. To this end, we have a mushroom-growth of content writers everywhere on the net. Some of these writers you will get to see are real quality writers, on the other hand, there is a brood of content writers you must avoid as plague. If you run a company and really want to hire some quality writers, it may prove to be quite a challenging task, you need to embark on thorough scrutiny. But you don’t need to kill yourself over this, there are some genuine ways for hiring content writers. Some of the trusted ways are: Search in-house first This is the most common tip and you would have heard it many times, yet overlooked it all the time.…