There are some hard skills we look for, too.

What this country need is hard skills to enable us to compete with China in the future.

If you want to start an event with a score of 10, it requires harder skills.

Parallel parking is considered to be one of the hardest skills for new drivers to learn.

"The basic thing I was trying to get done was that all students have hard skills and deep knowledge.

Today, if you have no technical training or hard skills, you can't survive."

The student can also benefit from the knowledge about hard skills and soft skills of more experienced co-workers.

Soft skills complement hard skills which are the occupational requirements of a job and many other activities.

L1 is an adventure based program, focusing on hardening the hard skills associated with leadership in a wilderness setting.

Hard skills are for autistic fools.

Over the last 50 years, business schools have alternately emphasized so-called hard skills, like finance, and soft ones, like leadership, which are more popular now.

They're also looking for hard skills - math, science, basic literacy and computer skills - and are pressuring schools to teach them better.

"Hardest skills of all."

The performance areas can range from "soft skills" or "people skills" to "hard skills" relating to specific technical tasks.

It combines the disparate elements of backcountry "hard skills" that students learn with a seminar-style ethics course focused on classical and contemporary environmental philosophy.

The business acquisition, however, if the market allows, should focus on acquiring projects which develop hard skills (e.g.: resource management, analytics, technical, etc.)

Whelan said, "I'm really pleased with today's performance, there is still a few harder skills I'm working on but they weren't quite ready for today's competition.

There are lots of secretarial and accountancy jobs for women, particularly if they have what we call 'hard skills' such as audio typing, shorthand and word-processing experience.

Badges may point to "hard skills" such as computer programming, as well as "soft skills" like collaboration or "new skills" like social media and Web 2.0 topics.

Particular skills of this type of analyst are "soft skills", such as knowledge of the business, requirements engineering, stakeholder analysis, and some "hard skills", such as business process modeling.

Apart from preparing the students with hard skills special efforts are imparted to develop soft skills like paper presentation, giving technical seminars, mock interviews and other such skills normally considered essential in the industry.

Having no place to go, Jacinta takes Patricia to live with her and she starts to learn the hard skills of leading cattle and handling horses, which is very common on the Eastern Plains of Colombia.

"It's interesting that hard skills are considered better than soft," said C. Thomas Howard, professor of finance and director of M.B.A. programs at Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver.

Programs may also include (course-work based) training in soft skills, such as leadership and negotiation, in hard skills, such as spreadsheets, project management and foreign languages, and in areas such as multiculturalism and corporate social responsibility.

In a near-rave review of the play, the Gleaner said: "one of the hardest skills for an actor to master is the spontaneous reaction; Ramsay does it effortlessly, creating on-the-fly responses to heckling patrons while keeping one ear in the scene.