Deck 5:On Course at Work: Soft Skills at Work

Question 1

According to the SCANS report,employers consider soft skills,like those taught in On Course,to be ____.

A) essential for work-world success
B) unnecessary for continued job success
C) a thing of the past-no one worries about those any longer

Answer 1

essential for work-world success

Question 2

According to the SCANS report,hard skills are enough to help you get the job of your dreams and keep it.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Soft skills may be the skills that determine whether you will keep a job or lose it.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The soft skills you'll learn in On Course are ideal for succeeding in both college and your career.

Question 5

One estimate suggests that only ___ percent of workers lose their jobs because they can't do the work; the others lose their jobs because they lack necessary soft skills.

A) 5
B) 15
C) 30
D) 50