Hard and Soft Skills for Beginners

This Course is designed for students who have completed ESL classes for Beginners in Reading and Writing. It is for students to have a basic understanding of what Hard and Soft skills are, with examples. Students will learn how to read, and identify these skills by looking through some Job Descriptions of Job titles that people usually apply for as first jobs, and/or to supplement incomes.

Students will complete assignments by reading through the Job Ad section in a Newspaper, cut them out or go to Job websites to search through Job Ads and print them out and use them to complete Homework Assignments. Students are expected to attend all Classes, participate in discussion, activities, complete homework assignments, quizzes, and a final exam.

Grade Points

Attendance: 15%

Activities and Class Participation: 15%

Exam: 30%

Homework Assignments: 20%

Quizzes: 20%

At the completion of this course, students will know what Hard and Soft skills are, examples of these skills, how to identify these skills when they read a Job description of a Job that they find either in a Newspaper or an Online Job website. They will understand the importance of having these skills to meet the requirements and qualifications that are needed for a particular job.