Canadian Immigrant The Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace
Canadian Immigrant The Importance of Soft Skills in the Workplace explains which soft skills Canadian employers weigh and how they shape career progression. Written by career coach Murali Murthy for Canadian Immigrant, a magazine for newcomers to Canada, the article names six workplace soft skills and four actions for moving ahead once a job is held.
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The article sets out why employers weigh soft skills as heavily as technical ones, then describes six of them: communication, teamwork, flexibility, problem solving, creativity and leadership. A second part turns to progression inside a Canadian workplace: fitting into the company culture, interpersonal skills and small talk, assertiveness as distinct from aggression, and executive presence.
You can read each soft skill with your own role in mind and pick the one or two that would change how colleagues see you. The passage on assertiveness gives you wording for stating a view firmly and respectfully, and the small-talk examples show what Canadian colleagues open with before business. The section on executive presence names what senior managers are judged on, so you know what to build towards.
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