Glossary and Frequently Asked Questions

Glossary 

Term	Definition
Attitudes	Position or posture of the body appropriate to or expressive of an action, emotion, etc: a threatening attitude; a relaxed attitude.
Barrier of communication – distractions	This is something or someone that stops you from talking to another person effectively. Distraction is something that occurs that takes your mind off what you are doing at that time.
Communication Skills	Communication skills are how someone understands expressions, body language and how they listen.
Effective Communication	This is how someone communicates through verbally, body language and the words that they speak.
General Attributes	These are skills an employer will like a person to have and skills that are useful within that job e.g. good presentation, people skills and planning skills.
Hard Skills	Hard Skills are teachable abilities that may be needed for jobs examples of these are typing, operating machinery or numeracy.
Interpersonal Skills	The skills used to communicate with others properly or effectively.
Perception	This is how we immediately look at something and we take it in and instantly think it is what it looks like to the person or what it sounds like.
Specific Attributes	These are skills an employer will like a person to have and skills that are useful within that job e.g. work experience, qualifications.
Soft Skills	These are skills that someone wants or acquires like flexible attitude or common sense.
Slang/Jargon	This is normally language created by people to use in their daily life to shorten down words or change words with their own ascent.
Working Procedures	These are working things like flexible work time, over time and when employees are allowed breaks.

Frequently Asked Questions

1.    What are attributes?

Ans: Attributes are things that people either pick up naturally or either learns them. This is split up into two different categories Specific and, General.

2.    What is independence?

Ans: Independence is when someone is able to work on their own without guidance or help from any peer or anyone else.

3.    What is a barrier of effective communication?

Ans: A barrier of effective communication is what stops people from talking to others and getting their full attention.

4.    What is a solution to a barrier of effective communication?

Ans: A solution to a barrier of effective communication is when you try something to stop the barrier to try and get someone’s full attention so you can get your point across.

5.    How can I learn Hard/Soft Skills?

Ans: You can learn hard skills easier than learning soft skills because hard skills are something you can learn from courses/school but soft skills are more that naturally learn from others while you were either young or just by looking at what others do.

6.    What are the main skills and qualities employers look for?

Ans:  The main skills an employer looks for are specific ones that ones that are relevant for the job like an web development job they would want to know that you can work with web coding, and they would look for in qualities would be good team working and people skills.

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