Explain why health care employers are searching for employees with soft skills in addition to hard skills

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Soft skills or people skills are the personality characteristics that enhance your ability to interact effectively with other people. Hard skills are the hands-on, technical skills that enable you to perform the duties of your job competently and safely. Once you've graduated from your educational program and obtained credentials to practice, employers will assume you are competent to perform the hands-on, technical, hard skills duties of your job. Hard skills can be learned and improved over time, but soft skills are part of your personality and are much more difficult to acquire and change. Employers are increasingly screening, hiring, paying, and promoting for soft skills to ensure that their employees work harmoniously with other people.

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