BENGALURU: It was a few years ago when you had to master several hard skills and your career trajectory was set. The scenario today being experienced by the businesses are in a state of constant flux. You do need multiple skills, but with a unique mix of hard and soft skills. It is very much essential to endeavor and to survive in the competitive environment. However, it is good to observe a sudden dynamic change in how young people entering the workplace today already bring few basic talents, youthful energy, and tech savviness imbibed in them.

Getting hired won’t be a herculean task if you are committed and have set of these new skills printed on your resume:

• The know-how of different cultures

It is expected that you’d be master as per your “subject” and “interests” but, there is more to do beyond just that. CEOs across the world strongly suggested that cultural competence is one of disregarded and the most critical leadership skills, as studied by Development Dimensions International (DDI).

How to do: To acquire this, one need to work with cultural agility, keep your observation skills engaged. Stay alert to elements will aid you in learning the ability to adapt. On the top of all, don't hesitate to ask questions. Notice how people live, act, dress and treat each other.

• Manage and leverage cultural manifold

With ever fastest growing connectivity has shrunk our planet, hypothetically. From one workplace, you can interact and work with people from time zones around the world. It is beneficial for your personal reach as well as for your business; a much-needed skill to understand and manage diversity.

How to do: Increase involvement of all the people in your team and ask them to draw on their unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Having different views, communication styles will motivate a smart employee to leverage diversity, and give the company a competitive advantage.

• Bound-up with masses

Though social networks do fulfill all your desires of connecting and communicating with people at a farther distance but humans, the presence essentially; it brings value to the table. A research carried out by Carnegie Institute of Technology revealed that 85% of financial success lies in skills like human engineering, ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. This experience with strong emotional intelligence here would benefit a business hugely.

How to do: Make a genuine effort to connect with people. Keep off from your smartphones and other devices, pay attention to your peers or client, take opinions and give help, when needed.

• Listen and process uprightly

This skill is extremely important for future leaders and aspiring entrepreneurs. The ability includes sharing and paying attention and involves reserving judgment, clarifying, reflecting, of course, summarizing. In a top-down management approach, the chances to listen to your people are cut-off. A good leader would never want that.

How to do: Listen to them. Stay polite and consider moods, body language, and natural behavioral tendencies. Show them that they’re valuable and always be empathetic, without judging them.

• Willingness to keep learning and reinvent

We acknowledge that there is a plethora of knowledge and skills that we can try our hands-on. But, to keep pace with the fluctuating job market, you might consider trying update according to profile. It shows that person is flexible and eager to acquire new talent. You realize it better when you assimilate fresh concepts and accomplish new challenges. Prefer to adapt and reinvent within your territory of work.

How to do: Hold your ego back when you look at many scope of learning avaiable. You might need to consider reading, communicate, pick up courses or anything that helps you upgrading.

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