Power Skills: what they are and the importance of this trend

What makes a good employee really great? We know that it is the set of skills he/she has, his/her hard skills and soft skills. However, today the labor market and its demands evolve every day, and now there is a new concept to be understood and applied: the power skills.

Throughout this article you will learn what power skills are and why they are so important and have become a real market trend when it comes to employee development.

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What are power skills?

To understand what power skills are, you first need to understand two other distinct concepts: hard skills and soft skills:

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• hard skills: these are the employee's technical skills, they are solid and well-founded. They can usually be evaluated by means of tests and are linked to courses and certifications;
• soft skills: these are the behavioral skills of that professional. Generally they are not possible to be measured by means of tests, since they are interpersonal and not tangible skills. 

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Knowing both of the above concepts it is easier to understand power skills, which are nothing more than the union of hard skills and soft skills into a new skill that, in essence, does not fully fit into either concept, since it shares both spheres of knowledge.

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Why are they important in today's job market?

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Power skills are so important these days because the market demands more and more professionals who seek continuous improvement and are always working on improving themselves.

It is also well known that factors such as digital transformation and the growing demands of the most diverse segments call for plural professionals who know how to deal with different types of situations, deliveries, and profiles that are involved in the organizational environment. 

It is exactly in this type of scenario that the power skills are so relevant. It's not enough to have the technical and it's not enough to have the behavioral, you need to have a mix of the nuances of each one of them to be a true high performance professional. 

To achieve this goal, the company must offer different forms of training (whether through mentoring, courses, workshops, etc.), but the professional must also seek improvement based on the greatest points for improvement. 

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