Transferable Skills: Networking with Industry Experts

A descriptive phenomenological inquiry approach applied to study the unique viewpoint of experience in an extracurricular leadership career program. Participants found the leadership program more challenging, primarily upon self-direction roles. They were also culturally concerned about the acceptance of online community networking. It was found that members needed constant referees such as the trainers for gaining expert support focusing on different needs. They were also culturally concerned about the acceptance of online community networking. It was found that members needed constant referees such as the trainers for gaining expert support focusing on different needs. However, this lengthy process did not result in a negative impact on their learning. There were commonalities of experiences among participants within the main themes, but there were also unique experiences and similarities among participants were compared and considered in the practical recommendation. Three significant changes are needed to refine the leadership learning program. Based on the discussion with participants, experiences included the need for providing orientation or guidelines to the program, dedicated training sessions to discuss cultural differences /awareness for online communication. Skills are the specific acquired abilities you need to perform a particular job well. There are many definitions of soft skills in literature. The first distinction between self-oriented/Intrapsychic and other guided/personal skills can be made. The first of them refers to what a person must understand and develop himself while the second category combines what a person can develop relevant with others. This distinction can also be made in terms of personal and social skills. Personal skills are mainly compatible with cognitive skills, such as knowledge and thinking skills while social skills refer to relationships with other people.Just to mention some, cognitive skill is the ability to develop information and the skill of thinking is the ability to exercise critical judgment. Examples of personal skills include the ability and desire to continue learning and the ability to plan and achieve goals. Key social skills in communication, listening, negotiation, networking, problem solving, decision-making and firmness can be identified (Engelberg, 2015). Soft skills give the solid and hard-core skills required to develop and keep up in changing circumstances. Soft skills are closely related to plastic, rational, and abilities, which have been placed in the frontal cortex, developed by Man in the past 50,000 years. Difficult skills allow a person to be what he is: engineer, physicist, philosopher. Soft skills operate in a direction separate from the role of the individual and go beyond the strict demands of the profession (Gracie, 2014).The meaning within the personality and personal competencies is well described in Figure 1 based on Daniel Goleman's research. Any individual is responsible for his actions, and this is based on different elements, each of them connected to others. The interaction between awareness and work with personal and personal competencies between characters, as the figure clearly shows (Kingsley, 2015).