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Soft skills get a hard emphasis for prospective job seekers
Educators, business owners stress need for professional behavior in workplace
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Job seekers descend on the Gainesville Civic Center during the annual Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce job fair in March. Today's job seekers coming out of college need more than vocational skills; they need to master the "soft skills" of professional behavior to be attractive to employers.
As public schools, technical colleges and universities prepare students to enter today’s workforce, it’s not enough to teach them the skills needed to do a particular type of job or career. Officials say students also need basic “soft skills” required to get and keep a job. “Employability skills, soft skills, they’re called lots of different things,” said Misty Freeman, director of college and career readiness for the Gainesville City School System.