While hard skills remain crucial to securing a job, soft skills can help candidates stand out from the pack.
"Hard skills are the technical skills required to do your job. For instance, if you are applying to be a sales professional, then you need to have knowledge of sales processes and how to use a CRM platform," she said. These are the top five soft skills young workers should focus on building in the new year, according to LinkedIn:
Critical thinking: Ability to understand and address a situation based on all available facts and information.Interpersonal skills: In a, the ability to build relationships and collaborate with teams globally is an important skill.