What Kenya employers think about soft skills

Softs skills, also known as transferable skills or life skills, are considered an important requirement for an employee to do well in today’s workplace. These skills include knowledge, attitudes and behaviours essential to working well with others such as: good communication, honesty, self confidence, resilience and leadership.

Soft skills are distinguished from the other kind of ‘hard’ technical skills required to perform work tasks in a defined field, in that they are essential no matter what field one is working in. In fact they are termed ‘life skills ‘for that reason; they are considered essential for life and are transferable to different work and life situations.