Soft skills you require to land your dream job during COVID-19

As per LinkedIn data, about 1.5 million entry-level jobs are available in the U.S markets that are demanding soft skills. Most of the jobs are being offered in the following industries: retail, healthcare, software, and IT companies, travel and recreation, and transportation industry. Let’s explore some best soft skills that you require to land your dream job during COVID-19.

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Adaptability: During COVID-19, most of the employees and workers are anxious due to the fear of losing their jobs. Anxiety and stress are amplifying day by day. Hence, the conventional day to day tasks is changing dynamically. Therefore, adaptability is now a demanding skill to run all operations smoothly. 

Because of COVID-19, all works are being shifted online so all workers and employees need to adapt to the changing routines and tools that are invented to work online. You can master the adaptability by taking small steps. You need to come out of your comfort zone and ask questions to yourself on how you can perform your all work operations with these online tools. In this way, you will become adaptable to a new routine within a few days. 

Self-Management:

In the outbreak of this pandemic, our conventional day to day routine is completely disturbed.  We all are exhausted and want to walk away from these new work routines, and this is where self-management skills can be useful. Self-management will help you perform your task in a tranquil atmosphere.  Moreover, through self-management, you can adequately maintain well job relations with your colleagues and boss and you can smoothly accomplish your day to day objectives. 

With self-management, you can manage your work-associated issues with great resilience, inner strength, and diligence. These characteristics will let you fulfill your all committed goals within the deadline, and you can confidently hold yourself answerable on the last of your working days. 

Communication:

Communication is essential for the consistent workflow, specifically if the work team is no longer able to meet physically with another team in one room. Maintaining an online discussion with your managers and colleagues can be a daunting task. But with so many digital tools you can easily manage your conversations and can talk with each other like you are sitting in the same room.

Many companies reported that they are using WhatsApp chat rooms, slack, zoom, etc. to make good communication with their team members. Hence, it is curricular for all job seekers that they must know how to use these different digital tools to land their dream job during COVID-19. 

Productivity:

In this era of COVID-19, there is no doubt that productivity has decreased due to the lockdown and disruption of the balanced work-life. Because of so many zoom meetings sometimes employees feel harder to concentrate on their work.

Nonetheless, according to the survey of Willis Towers Watson, more than 50% of employers who are working remotely found that COVID-19 lockdown did not produce any significant negative effect on their productivity rather they said that lockdown encouraged them to get more work done in less time without any wrangle of traveling to and from work.  

You can strategically plan your day and can perform even better in your work life. For example, while working from home when you get short breaks between your job work you can cook a meal or can do exercise. Moreover, you can also talk with your managers and can request them to permit you to do your task at night or during the afternoon, at any time when you feel more energetic. 

Problem-solving and Critical thinking:

During this COVID-19, many jobs are demanding those individuals who are well aware of different problem-solving skills. Employees and job seekers can get an advantage with these skills. They can ask the right question, analyze problems in the different dimensions, and can use digital technology to quickly solve their problems. 

Human Resource Management Society surveyed more than 30% of employers, and they state that individuals whom they interviewed during jobs have a lack of problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Those individuals who had these two skills had more chance to stand among other candidates. 

You can learn problem-solving by taking small practical steps like trying to solve the problem in a solution finding manner instead of using fault finding manner. 

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Leadership:

Leadership is a skill that may be in the form of soft skills. Through this soft skill, leadership, you can avail of your dream job in this global pandemic Covid-19. This skill of leading someone or something is a symbol of mindfulness and genuineness and it can lead your career to the highest position in this pandemic era. 

Through this skill, you can engage people or customers by motivating them about a certain matter or product for example, as good leaders are also good motivators. Not only motivation but also self-awareness, confidence, and flexible behavior are also a part of the personality that is involved in the phenomenon of leadership as a soft skill. It can help you avail of a good job during and even after this COVID-19 pandemic.

Creative Thinking:

Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many jobs are at the risk around the world. In these circumstances thinking creatively can be helpful for your career. It is a general view that most organizations prefer employees who have innovative ideas and critical thinking because of new and unique ways of performing a task may lead to catching the attention of the target audience or customers. For example, you want to organize an event in a student club; try to focus on creativity in every task.  

Stereotypical and traditional ideas do not grab the attention in any field particularly in this era of technology were innovations have become a part of routine life. It is good to hear that creative thinking is not only natural or god-gifted soft skill but also it can be developed by yourself. So, a creative thing as a soft skill may be adopted to get a reasonable job in this pandemic era of COVID-19.

Emotional Intelligence:

Emotional intelligence that is also known as EQ, is becoming a significant and popular component of a team having a standard performance in this age of competition. This is a soft skill that deals with understanding, organizing, and resolving the problems with the aid of emotions or senses. 

Social skills, empathy, self-regulation, self-awareness, and motivation are five key elements of emotional intelligence, according to an American psychologist, Daniel Golman who is known for putting efforts to make popularized the concept of emotional intelligence. By using these five key elements you can engage more audiences and can avail more opportunities to land your dream job during and after this global pandemic COVID-19.

Digital Marketing:

Digital marketing skill provides a wide range of opportunities to get a good job in this age of competition and global pandemic. Everyone is trying hard to resume her/his previous job or to get a new one. Digital marketing is an amazing soft skill that can help you get better career opportunities even staying at your place. 

You can engage your target audience and customers by marketing your product through this soft skill. For the purpose, you need technical skills and abilities to explore your new audience. Data analysis, social media skills, editing, and writing skills and social media advertising skills are part of this soft skill i.e. digital marketing.

Customer Service:

It is all about providing or delivering a service to customers or target audience. It is generally known to everyone that most of the companies and organizations of a good reputation have a ‘customers’ service department’ to provide their best of services to their customers. In the same way, by providing all the required services to the customers, you can get more chances of availing a good job during this pandemic of COVID-19. 

This skill requires meaningful interaction with customers. It is a common observation that providing customer service is not an easy task but you can make it easy for by following this instruction:

• Focus on your customers and build an effective interaction with them.
• Focus on the demands of your customers, i.e. what they want or need.
• Be vigilant and responsible before, during, and after the process of purchase.